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Re: IDENT protocol and DR

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Subject: Re: IDENT protocol and DR
From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:26:18 +0200
[Horms]:
>
>   That should work pretty well and could be done quite cleanly using
>   an fwmark virtual service. The only potential problem would be if
>   you were getting a _lot_ of mail from one IP address over multiple
>   connections as they probably would all end up on one real server.

I'll look into this, thank you for the tip.

>   On the other hand, I wonder if it would be possible to issue the
>   ident request with the RIP instead of the VIP.

in the IDENT protocol, only the source and destination ports are
given.  the source and destination IP addresses are taken from the
IDENT connection, so our IDENT client must use VIP as its source
address.

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