[K12OSN] OT: Routing issue

Timothy Legge timlegge at gmail.com
Sun May 20 11:07:35 UTC 2007


It turned out to be a load balancer config issue (despite hours of
protests to the contrary from the "expert")...

Tim

On 5/19/07, Timothy Legge <timlegge at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is a CoyotePoint 350.  This is a test phase, unfortunately it is a
> flat network...
>
>
> On 5/19/07, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
> >
> >  It sounds like you're using the "direct routing" method vs. the "NAT
> > routing" method.  There's nothing wrong with using the "direct routing"
> > algorithm; that actually can reduce the load on the load balancer by quite a
> > bit.  Just this week, I set up a load balancer as a proof-of-concept, using
> > NAT routing.  On a Pentium 4  box running at 2.8GHz, I was able to push
> > 320.3Mbps through the new CentOS 5's LVS, which consumed just under 70% CPU.
> >  Granted, that's not a small amount of traffic, and it actually does serve
> > our needs at work very well, but it would've been even larger had I used
> > direct routing.
> >
> >  What kind of load balancer are you using?
> >
> >  --TP
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> >  Timothy Legge wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >  I am trying to setup a load balancer to balance two apache servers.
> >  The trouble is that the load balancer, client and apache servers are
> >  on one (test).  The client contacts the load balance which goes to the
> >  apache server but the apache server responds directly to the client.
> >
> >  I know it is a routing issue but I cannot seem to make Linux route all
> >  local network trafic to the load balance.  Any ideas?
> >
> >  Tim
> >
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