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Re: [lvs-users] Trouble getting first LVS setup working

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Trouble getting first LVS setup working
From: Sebastian Vieira <sebvieira@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:37:14 +0100
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Graeme Fowler <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On the realserver(s):
> # /sbin/ip address add 10.9.3.6/32 dev lo
>
> Add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:
> # LVS switches
> net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_ignore = 1
> net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_announce = 2
> net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1
> net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2
>
> Then do
> # sysctl -p


I always asuumed that you need to set the sysctl values first and only then
bring up the loopback adapter, else it would do an arp broadcast.. Are there
situations where you don't need to?

Sebastian.
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