I'm not dealing with the arp problem but the martian problem that only occurs when the director is also the default gateway/router. I'm wondering though why Red Hat recommends using aprtables_jf when adding a few lines to sysctl.conf seems to be so much simpler and less invasive.
Regards, Dennis On 01/20/2010 04:57 PM, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: > Hi Keijser, > > Is there problem with the way RedHat suggest? > http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtual_Server_Administration/s1-lvs-direct-VSA.html#s2-lvs-direct-arptables-VSA > > Miki > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:03 PM, L.S. Keijser<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Dennis, >> >> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 14:08 +0100, Dennis J. wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I'm trying to set up a couple of realservers behind a >>> gateway/router/firewall and would like to put the LVS-DR config on that >>> machine too. In another setup I'm already running LVS-DR but there the >>> director is not sitting between the client and the realservers. >>> I've read the documentation and googled around and found that the >>> director/gateway combination only works with patches applied and some >>> additional non-standard configuration steps. >>> What I'm wondering is if there is an easier way to accomplish this now? >> The >>> references I found on the web go all the way back to 2001 and talk about >>> 2.2 and 2.4 kernels so I'm not sure if the patches/hacks to make this >> work >>> are still valid or if there is an easier way to accomplish this nowadays? >> >> I assume by all this you mean solving the ARP problem. If so, take a >> look at this section of the HOWTO which is specific on 2.6 kernels: >> >> >> http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.arp_problem.html#2.6_arp >> >> In a nutshell: you don't need to patch anything, just set some proc >> values and bring up a loopback device (in that order). >> >> -- >> Léon >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: >> http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ >> >> LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] >> Send requests to [email protected] >> or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users >> > _______________________________________________ > Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: > http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ > > LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] > Send requests to [email protected] > or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [email protected] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
