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Re: Mysterious packet drops in a IPVS-DR setup

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Mysterious packet drops in a IPVS-DR setup
From: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:40:45 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Jan Abraham wrote:

This setup works perfectly most of the time, but sometimes the database servers drops tcp connection requests originating from the web servers.

How do you get the director to load balance requests from the realservers to the database machines? A different VIP on the director?

The tcp syn packets went from the webserver through the ipvs machine, the mac adresses are replaced there and the packet arrived at one of the database servers (it's visible in tcpdump at the database server and looks correct).

ie has the correct IP etc?

But the database server is ignoring it, not sending a syn/ack, tcp rst packet or something else. Also neither the kernel nor the database is logging anything (eg. tcp hash table overflow or something you'd expect in such cases).

This does not happen when the webservers connect directly to the database servers without using the ipvs loadbalancer but using application based load balancing on the webservers. Because of the we think that it could be a problem related to ipvs and maybe somebody at this list is able to give us a hint what to do.

this is a new one.

Joe

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