Re: [vserver] ipvsadm and ip_forward

From: Gustavo <lungpu_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat 06 Oct 2007 - 03:38:06 BST
Message-ID: <624a23b80710051938m4d60f5b9v5afec31f7ab42a1c@mail.gmail.com>

No problem.

good luck with that.

Gustavo

On 10/5/07, Dennis Muhlestein <djmuhlestein@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You're correct about the dummy interface. That had already fixed my
> problem.
> Thanks for the reply though.
>
> -Dennis
>
> On 10/5/07, Gustavo <lungpu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Dennis, I didn't try what you want to do yet (it's in something like
> the
> > stack of todo tasks ;) but I needed when implemented vservers here to
> set up
> > a dummy interface, I think this could help you. I've tried to schemes:
> the
> > vserver host on the lan and vps guests on a private lan with the host as
> > gateway/firewall. The another is connecting out the host and the guests
> into
> > the same lan, all of them at the same level. In this last case the host
> is
> > still the firewall for the others but there's no network isolation. The
> > dummy interface in the first case, exists for the host and have one
> extra ip
> > for every guest you have. In the second, no dummy ip for the host is
> needed,
> > so they are only setup for the guests.
> > If you need some examples, I can send you some lines.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gustavo
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/5/07, Dennis Muhlestein < djmuhlestein@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > is the guest aware if that address at service bind time?
> > >
> > > Actually, the issue I was having is that the real servers behind the
> > > HA balancers did not have proper networking set up. I needed a dummy
> > > interface with the cloned ip address and had not discovered that step
> > > yet.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > Has anyone done this?
> > > >
> > > > no, why do you try to put the HA stuff into a guest?
> > > > HA setups on the host (for guests) are known to work
> > > > perfectly fine, including complete guest failovers
> > >
> > > The reason is that my HA machines are not providing HA for vserver
> > > machines. I have some real websites that I wanted load balancing and
> > > redundancy for. I didn't want to put the HA machines on the real
> > > machines and didn't have two extra servers to build into load
> > > balancers. HA takes so few resources that I decided it practical to
> > > install a couple HA guests on my existing vserver hosts. It's easy to
> > > back them up with my other vserver backups and is working quite well
> > > now actually.
> > >
> > > Thank you for the reply!
> > > -Dennis
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
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>

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