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Re: Multiple ports on real servers

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Multiple ports on real servers
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:14:26 +0900
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 07:18:46AM -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Mindaugas wrote:
> 
> >>>I need the following setup preferably with LVS-NAT:
> >>>VIP:80   --> RS1:80, RS1:81, RS1:82, RS2:80, RS2:81, RS2:82
> >>VIP:80 goes to 6 realservers (which are running on 2 boxes, but the 
> >>director 
> >>doesn't know that).
> >
> >Problem is that :80 does not work on LVS-NAT. IPVS does not
> >change destination port.
> 
> the prime functionality of LVS-NAT is that it rewrites the ports and
> the IP.  People rarely rewrite the ports so it's possible that it
> doesn't work anymore.  However if my setup wasn't working, I wouldn't
> use failure to rewrite ports as my first hypothesis for an
> explanation. Can you try this rewriting first
> 
> VIP:80   --> RS1:8080,RS2:8080

It should work. The caveat is that doesn't work if a real-server is
the same machine as the linux-director. There are patches (by me) in
the mailing list archives that get around this problem. But they have
not been sufficiently tested to be incoporated into the kernel.

-- 
Horms
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