RE: Piranha on same subnet

Hello Ed,

Thank you very much for your reply!  I did wonder if I would get criticized
for using IIS but it is not my choice, that is made by our developers I am
the infrastructure guy!  To be honest I come from a Solaris on Sparc and
Windows on intel background but am not really dedicated to one platform just
try and use the one that keeps me in a job!  :)

I must say this is a quiet list, which is good since in the past I never get
time to read lists that flood you with tons of mails.

Thanks again

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Croft [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Piranha on same subnet


On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 11:53, St.Clair, David wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I am new to the world of Piranha but am looking to use instead of
expensive
> Foundry Serverirons.  Please excuse my ignorance but could I ask the
> following question
> 
> If I have the this scenario:  
> 
> Two 'REAL' Windows 2000 HTTP servers Server1 (10.0.0.7/21) and Server2
> (10.0.0.8/21)
> 
> I have my Linux Load Balancer 10.0.0.9/21 on ETH0
> 
> and my HTTP clients on 10.0.0.20 thru 10.0.0.50
> 
> 
> All of these machines are on the same subnet and on the same layer 2
> ethernet switch.  Will it work?  This setup works fine on the Server IRON
> but not on my initial REDHAT attempt.  All the documentation I can find
show
> examples of having the LINUX server as a router between the clients on the
> INTERNET and therefore on one subnet and the real servers inside on
another
> SUBNET.  
> 
> This is not the scenario I want to use.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> David St.Clair
> 
David, welcome to the wonderful world of Linux. Fortunately, this is not
a standard list or they would have jumped on you about using IIS or as
they would call it, ISC (Internet Swiss cheese). That being said and out
of my system, You need to set up the NAT portion in your config. This
way the two servers see the address as coming from the load balancer and
not directly in. That would be my guess. Also make sure their default
route points to that box. Hopefully, some more informed people will jump
in, but that is my two cents.
Ed Croft, RHCE




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