Hi David - yes, I'd observed the stuff about arp patches for Linux, but I'd assumed that was primarily of interest if you were doing redundant directors. In my case, I just need to get load sharing going through a single director ASAP, so hopefully the whole ARP issue won't bite me (that, and all the servers are W2K machines).
Cheers Si On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:16:17AM -0500, David Douthitt said: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:37:41PM +1200, Simon Blake wrote: > > > Before I dive in and spend a bunch of time getting the varios LVS tools > > (mon, heartbeat, fake and so forth) packaged for Bering, has anybody > > done any of this sort of thing before? Links to packages? Gotchas? > > I've not done it with LEAF, but I have set up a cluster before. > The cluster used a Linux Cluster Director with Piranha, and > had three cluster nodes: a Linux node, a FreeBSD node, and an OpenBSD > node. > > Of the three, only Linux required kernel patches and/or extra (unused!) > hardware to function correctly. BSD works just fine without any > changes to the stock kernel beyond enabling the appropriate number of > loopback network connections - and FreeBSD comes entirely ready to go. > > It all revolves around what does this mean: > > ifconfig eth0 -arp > > For clustering to work, there must be NO ARPs coming from the > interface; BSD does this, the stock Linux kernel does not - even > with this command. Check the LVS site for more information about > this controversy (!) and the kernel discussions about it. > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
