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THANKS! That is just what I needed to know!
-Don
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 06:53 -0700, Don Steiny wrote:
>
>> I am doing DR and the ARP problem makes sense. The part I still don't
>> understand is "I need a public and private VIP." The ISP I am using has
>> assigned me some IP addresses. I know how to use ifconfig to put
>> multiple addresses on an interface, that is no big deal, but what I
>> can't figure out is how to decide what IP address to use for the VIP.
>>
>
> Pick any public IP you have that's not being used for anything yet. You
> say you have multiple IP addresses assigned to you by your ISP so that's
> great. Use one for the IP that isn't already used.
>
>
>> I
>> have looked up VIP and found many explanations, including ones that tie
>> it to lo, ones that say that it does not need to be tied to an interface
>> (and I don't know how to do that). Unless it is one of the ones my ISP
>> lets me use, then no one can get to me from the outside. I need to both
>> configure the machine and use it from outside the data center. I have
>> an IP address that I go into with ssh. If that is my RIP, then what
>> address should my VIP be? Should I request an address from my ISP that
>> I can use for the VIP and configure it on eth0? Do I get an address
>> from the ISP and have them configure the router so people can get to it?
>>
>
> Since you're going to use DR, you'll need to configure a loopback device
> on your realservers (provided you're using a fairly recent kernel - see
> the HOWTO for other solutions if this is not the case) that has the VIP
> (the public yes, you're not using anything else on the director)
> configured with a netmask of /32 and solve the arp problem (again look
> in the HOWTO for methods per kernel) if they are running Linux.
>
> This way the packets destined for the VIP get handled by the director
> and sent to one of the realservers configured in the LVS table. The
> realserver gets the Link Layer packet, sees its destination (the VIP),
> recognizes that it has that ip configured (the loopback device), handles
> the request (eg. a http request) and sends the reply back to the
> src_addr (the client).
>
>
>
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