On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Gary W. Smith wrote:

> I need to put together a firewall for a site that will 
> also have a need for ipvsadm services running with it. 
> Our original idea was to forward several of the external 
> IP's into a second box, behind the wall, running ipvsadm.

I assume you mean the box is a director.

> When rethinking about the problem, we thought that we 
> might be able to just run iptables and ipvsadm on the same 
> box.  I recall from an issue I had a couple years back 
> that this might not be possible.  So I'm checking to see 
> if it is and if so, what I should expect.

sometimes it works OK and sometimes it doesn't.


> * Firewall would be 1.1.1.2 on eth0
> * Firewall would also have aliases for 1.1.1.3, 1.1.1.4, and 1.1.1.5 on eth0

use secondary IPs not aliases.

> iptables would have this:
>
> -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

accept nic:VIP:port, all else reject

you don't want people connecting from the outside world to 
anything but the VIP:port

Joe

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