[lvs-users] Virtual IP for LVS

[David Coulson]

On 7/18/12 7:58 AM, Jean-Baptiste Molle wrote:
>
> Should I buy an IP address to my ISP and assign this address as VIP?
Depends on your environment. If that is where you get public IPs from, 
then yes.
> Let say that VIP is associated to www.example.com. When a client types www.example.com in his browser, he will go directly to my VIP (provided by the ISP).
> How does the system knows it has to redirect the request to the LVS Director?

LVS hooks into netfilter - If you have a matching LVS service, it will 
be handled by LVS.
> Does the LVS Director IP has to be on the same subnet as the VIP?
>
No, however the VIP much be reachable from whatever network your clients 
are coming from.

David