[lvs-users] load balancing works... kinda

[Graeme Fowler]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:51 -0500, Charlie Williams wrote:
> that worked for the local server, then I attempted to setup a 3rd machine
> solely running an apache server, ldirectord is able to reach its test page,
> and indicates that the server is available, but requests are not getting
> through from the virtual ip to the apache server (I see no accesses in the
> apache log from anything other than ldirectord), I don't see any indication
> of errors. Should I even be using direct routing? Would tunneling be a
> better scalable solution anyway?

Probably not, for a "local" networking setup (by which I mean all on the
same backend subnet, or L2 collision domain).

Does your third server have the VIP on a loopback (or other) alias?
ldirectord queries the RIP for healthchecks, as I recall.

Graeme