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On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:36:37AM +0800, Wensong Zhang wrote:
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> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Horms wrote:
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> > As per some discussions earlier in the week with Joe and others here is
> > a patch to try and auto load the ip_vs_ftp module if a real server is
> > added which uses LVS-NAT and the vport is 23.
> >
> > N.B: There are lots of times when this won't work, for example if you
> > are using fwmark virtual services. But it should handle the simple case
> > where a ip/port LVS-MASQ virtual service needs ip_vs_ftp.
> >
> > I decided to do this in ipvsadm rather than the kernel code as there is
> > no natrual dependancy for the kernel code to work with so it seemed
> > better to handle it in user space. Also the change in user space was
> > very easy. Easy is good :)
> >
> > Perhaps putting this in the kernel would allow us to catch fwmark
> > virtual services. But my feeling is that if you have worked out how to
> > use fwmarks then working out that you need ip_vs_ftp should be pretty
> > straight forward.
> >
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> Yes, it's probably good to do it in the user-space, because it's hard for
> the kernel to know which nat helper to load if users run services
> different from the default ports.
That is what I thought too. Do you have any objections to
the patch that I sent through, other than the minor
bug in a comment that Sebastien Bonnet found.
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Horms
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