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Re: RH and arp - why not just hack ifup?

To: cdemarco@xxxxxxxxx,<lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RH and arp - why not just hack ifup?
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:39:04 +0900
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:50:57AM +0800, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> Hi all... regarding the 04MAY2004 thread about RHEL AS realservers and
> howto keep arping from horking the LVS...
> 
> Why not   just comment out the  bits  of ifup that  invoke  arp(8) and
> arping(8)?  It's not ideal insofar as any system upgrades will need to
> re-clean the  ifup  code, but  to  my  mind it's the   least  invasive
> procedure  - re-writing clean init  scripts  will break the entire  RH
> point-n-drool  configurization functionality  that  users  may want to
> use.

Yes, that is certainly what I would do.
Perhaps RH could be encouraged (through a bug report on bugzilla)
to make this a configuration option.

> My understanding is that the manipulation  of arp caches is the single
> impediment to using RH products with LVS, or are there others?

RH is the only distribution that I am aware of that does this.
But it seems reasonable to think that others might do the same.

-- 
Horms
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