[lvs-users] no VIP up on real server? was: Re: arp problem with 2.6.X red hat kernels?

[Con Tassios]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Dan Yocum wrote:

> So, the questions I have are these:
>
> Why don't I need to bring up the VIP on the real servers? Is this
> normal?  Is this expected?

With LVS-DR, if you have an iptables rule such as 'iptables -t nat -A
PREROUTING -d VIP -p tcp --dport PORT -j REDIRECT' you would not need to have
the VIP configured on the real servers.