[lvs-users] arp_ignore issues

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Tim Mooney wrote:

> We've been using these settings on several different real servers ever
> since we moved those boxes to Red Hat EL 4, which has the 2.6.x kernel.
> Before that, we used a patched kernel on the 2.4 and 2.2 kernel series
> to avoid the ARP problem with LVS-DR.
>
> I wasn't even aware we weren't using the recommended settings.

if you're lucky you don't need to handle the arp problem. 
This happened to me in the early days. My LVS was running 
because the director always got its MAC address into my test 
client's arp cache.

Joe

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