Re: Forward from one LVS instance to another?

Robin Bowes <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:25:07 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.piranha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 15/07/10 02:05, Robin Bowes wrote:

> Is this sort of thing possible with Direct Routing?

Answer: No, Direct Routing requires the real servers and the director to
be on the same segment (piece of wire). They must be able to arp each
other as packets are sent by link-layer from the director to the
realservers.

I need to use tunnelling.

Some useful links:

http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.LVS-Tun.html
http://www.ultramonkey.org/papers/lvs_tutorial/html/

R.