I'm not dealing with the arp problem but the martian problem that only
occurs when the director is also the default gateway/router.
I'm wondering though why Red Hat recommends using aprtables_jf when adding
a few lines to sysctl.conf seems to be so much simpler and less invasive.
Regards,
Dennis
On 01/20/2010 04:57 PM, Michael Ben-Nes wrote:
> Hi Keijser,
>
> Is there problem with the way RedHat suggest?
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtual_Server_Administration/s1-lvs-direct-VSA.html#s2-lvs-direct-arptables-VSA
>
> Miki
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:03 PM, L.S. Keijser<leon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dennis,
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 14:08 +0100, Dennis J. wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm trying to set up a couple of realservers behind a
>>> gateway/router/firewall and would like to put the LVS-DR config on that
>>> machine too. In another setup I'm already running LVS-DR but there the
>>> director is not sitting between the client and the realservers.
>>> I've read the documentation and googled around and found that the
>>> director/gateway combination only works with patches applied and some
>>> additional non-standard configuration steps.
>>> What I'm wondering is if there is an easier way to accomplish this now?
>> The
>>> references I found on the web go all the way back to 2001 and talk about
>>> 2.2 and 2.4 kernels so I'm not sure if the patches/hacks to make this
>> work
>>> are still valid or if there is an easier way to accomplish this nowadays?
>>
>> I assume by all this you mean solving the ARP problem. If so, take a
>> look at this section of the HOWTO which is specific on 2.6 kernels:
>>
>>
>> http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.arp_problem.html#2.6_arp
>>
>> In a nutshell: you don't need to patch anything, just set some proc
>> values and bring up a loopback device (in that order).
>>
>> --
>> Léon
>>
>>
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