* Marian Hettwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-29 18:46]: > Pierre-Yves Ritschard schrieb: > >On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:20:50 +0100 > >Marian Hettwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Which would mean, I send a SYN to my load balancer, which forwards > >>the SYN to one of my webservers, and the webserver would send a > >>SYN-ACK back to me. But my machine, obviously can't do anything with > >>a SYN-ACK from an IP address it didn't even asked... > >>The client would assume to get a SYN-ACK from the load balancer > >>(which he asked...) > >> > >>understood? > > > >no you don't get it. > I believe I do get it. But I missed an important information about my > load balancing setup. See below. > >you setup your webservers with the load balancer as default gateway > >then use rdr as I described in my previous mail. hence all the traffic > >goes through the load-balancer and real client ips are preserved. > > > Ah... there we go. > I can't setup the webservers with their default gateway to my load > balancer. The boxes are dedicated servers and I have no possibility to > change the network settings. > These are rented servers (dedicated boxes) at some cheap ISP and all > they have is an official IP address. > Changing the default gateway isn't possible... > Sorry 'bout that.
nothing you can d about it then. you get what you pay for... -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
