Re: Can you change the destination port in DR mode ?

[Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:35:26PM +0100, Malcolm Turnbull wrote:
> 
> I'll try it myself anyway but just wanted to know if anyone knew allready.
> 
> i.e. can the load balancer listen on VIP:80 & 443
> but send all packets to port 443 ?

LVS-DR cannot do this. LVS-NAT can.

> Can it be done with an iptables rule ?

Probably not, as how would you rewrite the return packets when
you are using LVS-DR? In a nutshell what you are after is to
map port 80 to port 443. This is a form of NAT really. So LVS-NAT
is really your best bet.

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Horms