lvs-dr with freebsd jailhost as realservers: resolved.

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Mike Bloom wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The problem was that lvs-dr requires the vip to be bound to a lo0 on each of 
> the jails, rather than just the jailhosts lo0 interface.
>
> By applying a patch to the jail subsystem that allows multiple ip's 
> (http://www.digitaldaemon.com/FreeBSD/FreeBSD/index.html)  I was able to run 
> a jail with lo0 assigned the ip of the vip.

thanks for straightening us (me) out on this. I just looked 
up the wikipedia entry for FreeBSD jails

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Jail

which I knew nothing about. Sounds pretty neat.

> I hope this helps some other folks using freebsd jails, this one has stumped 
> me for a few days.

Why do you use the FreeBSD jails? You have multiple 
instances of realservers on each host? Why (you're getting 
less throughput / node)?

Thanks Joe


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