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Re: LVS: localnode question

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Subject: Re: LVS: localnode question
From: Michael Daum <micha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:15:24 +0200
On Thursday 22 April 2004 17:41, Joseph Mack wrote:
> Michael Daum wrote:
> > 
> > But I had to switch on SNAT
> > also to get all services work properly from the realservers. Is that meant 
> > to
> > be so?
> 
> No.
> 
> ip_vs has NAT in both directions already built in. 
> The reply packets come out already NAT'ed for you

What about packages that originate from the realservers, e.g. dns.
The ip_vs is not expecting these packages and will not NAT these. 
iptables' SNAT will happily fill that gap.

        Micha.

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