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Re: [lvs-users] IPv6 tunnel forwarding method ?

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] IPv6 tunnel forwarding method ?
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:35:34 +1000
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:28:12AM +0200, Nicolas Haller wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm testing the IPv6 features of LVS. I have compiled a kernel 2.6.30
> and ipvsadm from the svn.
> 
> At this page(http://kb.linuxvirtualserver.org/wiki/IPv6_load_balancing),
> it seemes the IPv6 patch maybe permits to use Tunnel forwarding
> mechanisms.
> 
> The problem went when I configure the service with ipvsadm. When I try
> to add a server, ipvsadm don't care about the -i option and add the
> server with local forward method.
> 
> Is it normal or there is a way I don't see?

IPVS will use the local forward method if the IP address of the
real-server is a local IP address - that is, it is an address of
one of the interfaces. In this case yes it ignores the -i option.


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