Re: Kernel / ldirectord interaction

["Patrick LeBoutillier" <patl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>>
>>> Also, would it be possible for an external application (i.e. a CGI
>>> script) to interrogate the ldirectord/kernel and ask:
>>>
>>> "If someone were to connect to the virtual IP at this moment, which
>>> real
>>> address would be used to serve him"?
>>>
>>
>> If your CGI script just wants to query the kernel which server is used
>> to
>> serve requests from an IP address, it is do-able.
>>
>
> What is the API to do this? Is it a set of system calls that one can
> invoke to communicate with the kernel?

Ok, I just found out about ipvsadm. Now evrything makes more sense....

Patrick