[noob] direct routing with only one routable ip?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Jed Reynolds wrote:

> I've read the MiniHowto and the UltraMonkey Tutorial. Something that I'm
> not entirely clear on if I can do a direct routing setup with only using
> one routable IP address (aka, the VIP).

In all the usual LVS setups, only the VIP is routable. The 
LVS is supposed to look like a single server to the client.

> What I would like to do is to put the realservers on a DMZ with
> non-routable addresses. And since I have two nics on the realservers,
> can I configure the realserver nics plugged into the WAN switch with the
> VIP? (arp_ignore of course). And  then I wouldn't need to do a lo:0,
> would I ?

It used to work with the 2.0, 2.2 kernels. Noone has tried 
it since then (that I know about). It should work.

Joe

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