Re: [vserver] Share Single Ip between guests

Adam Majer wrote:
> Oliver Welter wrote:
>> Even if Daniel gave the answer already, I will explain the problem - we
>> have an application based on Java that works similar to ftp, but as the
>> connection is secured via SSL (and I dont know the exact protocol), I
>> can not read the traffic and setup additional rules to route the RMI
>> connections to the correct host. I might cover that assigning the usual
>> port ranges that the app uses, but I consider this a bad hack, as it
>> will break connections of other services that accidential use these
>> ports. Besides, the application autmagically uses its own listening
>> adress in the negotiation with the client which than gets confused as
>> the receviced connection paramters do not match the expected IP.
>
> Then you must,
>
> * get more IP addresses, one per vserver, or
> * write an intermediate service that does the SSL authentication part
> and forwards unencrypted to other vserver(s), or
> * put all the stuff services on one vserver.
>
> I would also suggest using IPv6 but then IPv6 in vserver is not there
> yet...

It works fine. I've been using it for several months...

> Sharing the same IP address between vservers is like sharing the same IP
> addresses between different machines on a LAN. It just does not work.

Actually, it works great. One of the largest Linux-VServer deployments I
know of (PlanetLab) shares the IP address(es) between all guests.

> - Adam
>

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