Using LVS to forward HTTP from port 80 to servers running on port 81

[Spencer Tuttle]

Travis Melhiser wrote:
> I'm pretty new to LVS and can't seem to find the right configuration 
> or the right documentation to get my environment set up.
>
> I would like to have requests come to the LVS server on port 80 an 
> then have the LVS server forward these requests to the machines in the 
> cluster running the web servers on port 81.
>
> Does anyone have an example of how to set this up?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -T 

Simply allow port 80 through firewall, enable connection tracking in 
iptables, then create VIP using:

ipvsadm -A -t ipaddress:80 ..... etc.
then add real server
ipvsadm -a -t ipaddress:80 -r realserver:81 -m ... etc.

Spencer