active connections not correct

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Bill Omer wrote:

> Hi Joe, thanks for the quick reply.
>
> I'd rather not switch to LVS-NAT, simply because of the 
> amount of connections I'm going to be handling.  I am 
> expecting ~1000 ssh sessions and 300-500 telnet sessions 
> and I am worried that the load on the director would 
> suffer.

I have not tested an LVS-NAT director since it was changed 
to the netfilter framework for 2.4.x, but according to the 
guys who wrote the code, it is supposed to be as fast as 
LVS-DR.

> Maybe my understanding of LVS-DR is incorrect.  I 
> understand that return packets that are sent from the RS 
> to the client are not sent through the director. 
> However, would the reply packets from the client go 
> through the director in order to get to the RS?

yes.

> That was my understanding of LVS-DR, so I thought that the 
> ipvsadm table should continue to be updated.

no-one's thought it worth their time to have it working 
perfectly.

Joe

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