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Re: Real & virtual ip address confusion

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Real & virtual ip address confusion
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:18:45 -0400
> So, the director shouldn't have a primary ip address for the
> externally-listening interface? 

it can have any number of primary IPs on the outside. The only
one that ip_vs knows about is the VIP. The others aren't involved.

> What ip address is used when the real
> servers need to make connections to the outside, for dns or database
> access, for example?

this is not the concern of the ip_vs code. You have to configure
this separately. See the section in the HOWTO on 3-Tier realservers.

Joe

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to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA. mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx
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