On 7/18/12 7:58 AM, Jean-Baptiste Molle wrote: > > Should I buy an IP address to my ISP and assign this address as VIP? Depends on your environment. If that is where you get public IPs from, then yes. > Let say that VIP is associated to www.example.com. When a client types > www.example.com in his browser, he will go directly to my VIP (provided by > the ISP). > How does the system knows it has to redirect the request to the LVS Director?
LVS hooks into netfilter - If you have a matching LVS service, it will be handled by LVS. > Does the LVS Director IP has to be on the same subnet as the VIP? > No, however the VIP much be reachable from whatever network your clients are coming from. David _______________________________________________ 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
