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Re: RedHat Enterprise Linux AS as realservers?

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Subject: Re: RedHat Enterprise Linux AS as realservers?
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 08:42:59 -0400
Paolo Penzo wrote:
> 
> I'm currently using a couple of RS with the VIP on their loopback
> devices. Both servers are RHL7.3 (kernel 2.4.20-18.7).
> Moreover I've just tried the same network configuration (arp flag set to
> off) on a RHAS 3 (kernel 2.4.21-4.EL): it worked fine!

yes but do you know that the realservers are not replying to arp requests?

An LVS can work just fine even if the realservers are replying to arp requests,
as long as the MAC address the router gets is the directors. As I describe in
the HOWTO, my first LVS worked just fine without handing the arp problem,
for just this reason.

Joe

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