[lvs-users] Keepalived, localnode and localnode on BACKUP

[Graeme Fowler]

Hi

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 13:31 +0100, Thomas Pedoussaut wrote:
> I came across the packet storm problem where when the MASTER forwards a 
> connection to the real server on the BACKUP (via DR), the BACKUP treats 
> it as a VIP connection to be loadbalanced rather than a real server 
> connection to process. And decides to load balance it back to the MASTER 

You need a variant of the following two posts:

http://lists.graemef.net/pipermail/lvs-users/2007-December/020222.html
http://lists.graemef.net/pipermail/lvs-users/2007-December/020223.html

Essentially, you make LVS use fwmarks instead of the VIP, and you only
mark packets which are *not* from the other director.

Graeme