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Re: [lvs-users] Client, Server and Director in same LAN

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Client, Server and Director in same LAN
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:10:17 +0900
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 05:54:57AM +0200, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> On Saturday 30 October 2010 05:03:33 Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> > > On Thursday 28 October 2010 13:42:47 Simon Horman wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:24:36AM +0200, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > is it possible to use direct routing with clients, real server and
> > > > > director in the same LAN?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes. Actually, that is how I do most of my testing.
> > > 
> > > Do you have any idea why the director might limit the performance of our
> > > system? Without LB I get 100 connections/s to the real IP address of a
> > > real server. When I address the virtual IP of the director I get a
> > > performance drop to 1 connection/s.
> > > 
> > > tcpdump shows that sometimes I have no traffic at all on the line to 0.2
> > > sec.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas? Thanks.
> > 
> > If you are running 2.6.36 then this may relate to a performance
> > regression related to the introduction of double NAT.
> > 
> > But regardless, that is a pretty startling result that
> > I don't have a decent explanation for.
> 
> No. have some older version on the kernel and do not use NAT at all.
> 
> The only explanation we found at the moment is that something with
> bonding did not work properly.

Would it be possible for you to try this with a newer kernel
and if pain persists describe your setup in a little more detail?


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