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Greetings!
I was pointed to LVS as a means of solving a 'growth' problem I have.
Hopefully someone can confirm that LVS is the right tool for the job, and
could point me in the right direction from here.
The scope of the problem is thus:
I'm running a little home-based game hosting service for a medium-sized
group of people (about 50 or so), who run MUDs, board-games, turn-based
games, PBeM games, and the like. My little workhorse of a 1.3GHz AMD box
(768MB RAM) has been running Debian-based Ubuntu server for quite some
time, and I've had no problems with it. I use ssh, ftp, http, and ports in
the 6000-6100 range to allow people to work on their games and to host them
for others.
More people would like to use my service, so I would like to offer accounts
that actually reside on other servers connected to the network. I am told
that LVS may be the way to go.
Current setup is with a DSL modem that routes the above ports to the server
(static internal ip). Server also updates a dynamic dns name
(digitalmouse.dyndns.org) because the modem gets a new IP about every 24
hours. Users use a 'user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' to access their account
via ssh or ftp, and 'digitalmouse.dyndns.org:port#' when hosting a game for
other clients to connect to.
Basically I am looking for this kind of setup:
________
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| client | (local or internet)
|________|
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__________|___________
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| DSL Modem and router |
| (10.0.0.1) |
|______________________|
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-----------------+--------------------------->(future expansion)
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______|______ ______|______ _____|_______
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| server 1 | | server 2 | | server 3 |
|_____________| |_____________| |_____________|
10.0.0.10 10.0.0.11 10.0.0.n
user 1 user 4 user 7 etc...
user 2 user 5
user 3 user 6
...and keep this all transparent to the user. I'm not worried about
load-balancing since there is no 'real-time' cpu-intensive gaming at this
point, and I do not want to 'spread all the accounts around' in a
distributed cluster fashion- especially when the hardware widely varies
from low-end 200 MHz Pentium MMX boxes to 2 GHz AMD's.
So is LVS designed to do a sort of virtual port-forwarding for users not on
the original server? If so, please point me towards resources, links, or
tutorials on how to set such a beast up.
Thanks in advance for your time!
-Jimm
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