Patrick H. wrote : > So I just started setting up a RHEL6 box for use in a load balanced > cluster and have run across a problem. The way you set up a virtual IP > on the back end realhost side is to add an interface alias to the > loopback device (such as lo:0). Well the ifup-eth script in RHEL6 > refuses to add aliases to the loopback interface. Additionally if you > try to add the alias to the real ethX device instead it fails because > the arping check it does finds that the IP is already running on the > IPVS director. > > So, how is one supposed to setup a realhost now? > The difference from RHEL5 is that RHEL5 doesnt check to see if youre > adding an alias to the loopback device or not. Why does RHEL6 even care > about that anyway? Theres nothing wrong with it...
I've quickly tested a simple ifcfg-lo:0 like this and it works fine for me on RHEL6 : DEVICE=lo:0 IPADDR=10.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.255 Maybe you've been using a netmask which overlaps with some of the addresses configured on your eth interfaces : Don't do that for those "dummy" addresses. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) - Linux kernel 2.6.35.10-72.fc14.x86_64 Load : 0.01 0.04 0.11 _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
