[lvs-users] Client on realserver

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:49:52AM +0200, Rob de Wit wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I know it's an controversial topic, but I want my DR realserver to be a
> also client to the loadbalancer. I found this in the howto:
> 
> http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.lvs_clients_on_realservers.html
> 
> My problem is that the ROUTE extension doesn't appear to be available
> anymore. When I run patch-o-matic it seems that this extension is only
> available for kernels < 2.6.0 ???
> 
> Is there some other/new way that anyone knows of to force a packet over
> some interface in iptables?
> 
> Thanks for reading this far.

Hi Rob,

this should work without the need for the ROUTE extension
since 2.6.28. However, I have had some reports that it is broken
(which I need to follow up on).

http://lists.graemef.net/pipermail/lvs-users/2008-December/021707.html