active connections not correct

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Nicholas Newberry wrote:

> The realserver's replies to the client would be seen *by 
> the gateway* coming from a different MAC than the one the 
> gateway has for the VIP, but that's not such an abnormal 
> case for a gateway, I suppose.

For LVS-NAT the reply will come from the director.

For LVS-DR (and -Tun) you are correct. In this case some 
routers will object to the different MAC address, but it 
none of their business to do so - there is nothing in the 
tcpip spec that says that the MAC address has to be the 
same. The providers are breaking the spec and selling it as 
an enhancement.

Joe

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