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> Lets say a client makes a connection to your LVS, the LVS forwards that
> packet to a realserver, and the realserver then directly replies to the
> original client. Why does the realserver send the packet to the
> originating client and not back to the LVS it came from? It would see
> to me that under normal network situations, the realserver should reply
> back to wherever the request came from (LVS in this case), but it
> doesn't. The only thing I can come up with is that the LVS doesn't use
> its own MAC address as the source-mac on the packets going to the
> realserver. It uses the MAC address of whatever sent the original
> packets to the LVS (possibly a router?). Is that how it works?
Nope... :) The director actually forwards the packet to the realserver and
the realserver thinks it came from the client... The realserver sends back
a reply to the IP that the packet originated from, and since the director
doesn't change the packet's originator, it goes back to the client.
Dave :)
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