Redirection of packets based on source IP address

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, R.Govardhana Reddy wrote:

> 1. Can we redirect all the packets from one client to same
> real server? Not based on particular service the client is
> requesting.

no, you're asking for the opposite of loadbalancing. LVS 
requires that the gets its service from any realserver. You 
can keep the client on the same realserver using 
persistence, but this has side effects. Read about 
persistence to see if you can handle them.


> 2. Which forwarding technique is better?

they're all equally good.

> 3. Can I use any box in cluster as a Director and also as a
> Real Server? (Is it local node feature)

In principle yes, and we thought that LVS's might operate 
this way in the early days, but no-one has ever been 
interested in getting more that two directors to work.

Joe
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