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Re: DNS RR & Dual Directors ???

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: DNS RR & Dual Directors ???
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 11:44:43 -0500
pb wrote:
> 

> The problem ("this") is each real server would need to
> be able to have its default gateway (default route?)
> set to the NAT ROUTER IP, but trying it incorporate
> two live directors means dealing with two NAT Router
> IP's,
> and I don't see (or know how) I could get the real
> servers to route back to either NAT Router IP based on
> which LVS IP the packet came in on.  That's where I
> started to think about 2 NICS in each real server, and
> started to ponder multiple default gateways, and if
> there was any light at the end of this tunnel. Like
> this:

no you can't have two directors handling the same service
(and forwarding it to one set of realservers).
As well as the problems you've described, the
director keeps state information about the packet
stream. If half of the packets in a connection are
being sent via another machine, the director will
not be happy.

Joe

-- 
Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, SAIC contractor 
to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA. mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx
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