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Re: [PATCH] Auto load ip_vs_ftp helper module

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Auto load ip_vs_ftp helper module
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:07:08 +0900
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:06:14PM +0800, Wensong Zhang wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Horms wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I don't really think that helps. Because people still have
> > to know to use the --add/--helper option. And a lot of
> > the problem is that people don't realise that ftp needs
> > a helper.
> > 
> 
> That's true, though it is documented that LVS/NAT ftp should
> load ftp helper.

Yes. But the problem is that people generally don't read the
documentation. And when things don't work as expected (by them)
they either email the list or worse give up. My patch was designed
to help these people by making ipvsadm do a little guess-work
for them.

> > While I think your idea is a good one I don't think
> > that it addresses the problem at hand - making life
> > easy for people who just want a standard port 21 ftp
> > service to work. 
> > 
> 
> OK, just for making LVS/NAT ftp service at the stardand
> port 21 easy to work, will make a new version of ipvsadm
> with your patch.

Excellent!

-- 
Horms
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