[Linux-cluster] Lars' method???

[Lon Hohberger]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 10:54 -0500, William Ottley wrote:
> thanks Lon for the pointers. I've tried so many different methods just
> to get this to work: lvs-dr, lvs-nat with 2 nics, no go.. I can't seem
> to get anything to work.
> 
> so i'm doing serious google searches, and there's sooo many how-tos
> that tell you to do this, or do that, etc. and i'm like well which
> one? I'm on one now, that says for nat, create a copy of the eth1
> (private IP nic) eth1:1 and assign 192.168.0.254, and use that as the
> default gateway for all the RIP... is this true?
> 
> Thing is, i have to manually copy the eth1 file to eth1:1 and assign
> the IP, yet with the virtual IP, eth0:1 is created automatically... so
> this makes me believe something is wrong.

You could just change the 'nat router device' to eth1:1 in the
piranha-gui.

> I use pulse / piranha: what tools can I use to test and see if web
> traffic IS going to the RIP or not???

The web browser should work...

With NAT, the real servers need no special configuration apart from the
gateway being a NAT-side IP on the LVS director.  That's why it should
be easy to set up.

-- Lon