On Thursday 06 April 2006 06:55 am, Chuck wrote: my only other option is to do policy routing which i don't think our switch/router ios is right for.. at least then i could target the entier /24 for port 80 requests and translate them to something like 7080 before it gets to the machine and then back out again. messy at best i suspect.
> tuesday, i ran into a major emergency with a hardware failure on our email > machine which uses 130 ip addresses. my only choice was to move it to the > host side of our dell vserver host. this is presently causing an extreme > amount of port clashes as the email server wants to grab every ip on port 80 > for webmail rather than stick to a single /24 and i so far have not found a > way to bind it to only a single network. > > putting it into a guest would cure all of this i believe... i did not do this > initially due to the 16 ip limitations... > > is that limitation released yet? or is there code available which works well > enough to stuff it into a production environment? i have had to shut down 14 > vservers just to get mail to run :( > > the only other option i have is to buy a replacement server and put mail onto > that which i prefer not to do as we are targeting a large new server to put > all the vservers onto which would leave the dell to run email as a stand > alone machine but this wont happen for a good month yet as once the server > comes in i have to recompile every virtual to live on amd64/opteron arch as i > move them over (quite time consuming considering i am moving 40+ vservers off > a p3 intel environment).. > > > > -- > > Chuck > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > -- Chuck "...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger, and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. " The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver