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Re: [lvs-users] How to make NAT lvs work

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] How to make NAT lvs work
From: Mark Wadham <mark.wadham@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:59:22 +0100
I might just create a new network for the real servers, seems much easier ;)

Thanks

Mark

Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 15:40 +0100, Mark Wadham wrote:
>   
>> Is this a bad thing?
>>     
>
> No. But it means you need to do extra $stuff to make it work.
>
> Briefly, in a one-network LVS-NAT the replies from the realservers will
> try to get back to the clients via the most direct route. This means
> that they bypass the director, therefore the reverse NAT translation
> doesn't happen, and the connection hangs up and eventually times out.
>
> You need to force all responses from realservers back through the
> director for LVS-NAT to work.
>
> There's several good explanations of how to do this in the HOWTO and the
> list archives.
>
> If you can't find them, or they're not very clear, feel free to ask
> again.
>
> Graeme
>
>
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