On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Dean Scothern wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to either disable or bypass the localnode behaviour in ipvs?
other than not using it? > I'm trying to build a simple 2 node mail load balanced cluster. > I have a mail server on each node and load balance between the two via a vip. > I'm not allowed to use the lvs-dr method as our network guys say that > asynchronous routing is forbidden by our firewalls. > > I can use lvs-nat, with a separate 'back-end' network between the two > machines. I don't understand your lvs. You have the director in localnoce listening on the VIP and you have a 2nd box which is listening on the RIP via LVS-NAT? > However the localnode behaviour forces the mail server > (exim) to listen on the vip. When the second node's mail > server is migrated to the first node (pacemaker), it > cannot be accessed as all connections go to the vip and > hence the first mail server. > It appears that there was some experimentation to address > this some years ago, but I'm not sure if there have been > any recent developments. I thought there might have been something like this by Ted Pavlic in the early days but I can't find it. I expect the simplest thing to do is to get a 2nd realserver Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! _______________________________________________ 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
