LVS-Tun and realserver's initiating connections

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:

> This will be clustered XMPP server, clients will be balanced across few
> realservers on port 5222.

OK

> Another port will be used for 3rd party servers
> from outside of cluster.

which is the server? the machines on the internet or the 
realservers?

> Until now everything should work. But my server
> must connect to 3rd party servers too. So there is load balancing for
> incoming connections + outgoing connections managed at application level.

clients on the realservers can initiate connections to the 
internet (see the HOWTO). The client can be independant of 
the services that are LVS'ed or (eg mail servers) they can
be associated with the services being LVS'ed. You just have 
to arrange routing for the client call and reply.

Joe

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