On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:57:50PM +0530, Sivaraman Kannan wrote: > Hi all > I am a novice to LVS and have been playing around with ipvs for some > time. Does anyone know the difference between the Local and Reinject > 'forwarding mechanisms' (as listed by ipvsadm)? The reinject patch was added > by a Ludo (found the patch at www.austintek.com) - would like to understand > better before starting to use it. There is some documentation on this added > by Ludo himself but I find it beyond me. If someone could explain the basic > differences, that would be great. Thanks!
Hi Siva, I'm a bit rusty on the reinject patches, but I believe that their purpose is to allow LVS to be run in reverse more easily. That is, rather than load-balancing connections from the outside world to a (usually small) set of internal real-servers; load balance connections from a (small) set of internal machines to the outside world, utilising more than one connection to the outside world. In contrast, Local is used when a linux-director is also a real-server. Its just a fast-path when packets are to delivered locally. _______________________________________________ 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
