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Re: [lvs-users] annoying routing problem with a lvs cluster

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] annoying routing problem with a lvs cluster
Cc: Dean Scothern <dean.scothern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: David Coulson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:03:57 -0500
You need to SNAT real server traffic going to your real servers.

Quick google found this:

http://blog.loadbalancer.org/enabling-snat-in-lvs-xt_ipvs-and-iptables/

I'm presuming it's in mainline by now, but I know it's not in RHEL/SuSE yet.

David

On 3/1/12 7:55 AM, Dean Scothern wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been experimenting with a slightly non standard lvs cluster arrangement.
>
> I have a set of combined real servers/real clients (each machine has both 
> services and clients) and two machines running lvs as a cluster.
>
> All machines are connected directly to the same two networks: frontend and 
> backend.
>
> The real servers/real clients connect to a service ip on the lvs machines on 
> the frontend network.
> The lvs machines run in masq mode and connect to the real servers/real 
> clients on the backend network.
> I've configured policy routing on the real servers/real clients backend 
> interfaces to return traffic via a second gateway on the lvs hosts.
>
> This works very well except when a real server/real client connects to its 
> own backend interface via the lvs cluster ip.
> I guessing that the local host route means that instead of returning the 
> traffic via the backend gateway on the lvs it tries to go directly locally.
> Tcpdump appears to support this guess and if I turn on martian logging  I can 
> see the  traffic.
>
> Initially I thought that reverse path filtering was preventing operation but 
> the problem remained when it was disabled.
> Turning on routing had not beneficial effect either.
>
> Ideally I would like to setup routing to override the local table when the 
> policy routing rules are applied, but I'm not sure how.
> So far attempts to to do this have failed
>
> Has anyone managed to  do this?
>
> Its more of a routing question so apologies for being slightly off topic.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Dean Scothern
> Dr Dean Scothern
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