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Re: ARP-Problem

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ARP-Problem
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:47:56 +0900
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:05:49AM +0200, Stephan Wonczak wrote:
> 
>   If some client machine has to do a new arp-request, sometimes the now
> secondary machines answeres it! Meaning: Machine B is director, having
> taken over service from machine A, but both are still running. This
> happens e.g. during maintenance. Machine B has both :0 and :1-Adresses,
> machine A does no longer (verifiable by ifconfig).
>   Using tcpdump we could see machine A still answering arp-requests for
> the public LVS-Address, even though it is now assigned to machine B who
> *should* be answering. Huh? The funny thing is, this migration of IP
> adresses on virtual interfaces forks just fine without this problem for
> numerous other services, only ipvs seems to produce the problem with the
> ARPs.

Is the IP address still attached to an interface (alias or otherwise)
in Linux Director A?

-- 
Horms
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