[Linux-cluster] Ip Settings

[Burton S Simonds]

Stewart -
Thanks for the info, this was exactly what I was looking for.  I am  
working closing with our network engineer on this project, so I will  
be sharing this info with her and working out a solution.

B
On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Stewart Walters wrote:

> burton at simondsfamily.com wrote:
>> I would like some advice on setting up a High  Availability  
>> solution using RHCS with Apache.
>>
>> I would like my clustered nodes to communicate on vlan, and the  
>> client connections to come through another vlan.   Presently, I  
>> have 2 interfaces on each of 2 nodes.  1 interface on each vlan.  I  
>> also have a vip address for the clients to connect to for the  
>> apache server.
>>
>> node a:
>> xxx.xxx.100.1  eth0 (used for client connections)
>> xxx.xxx.200.1  eth1 (used for interconnect, cluster communication)
>>
>> node b
>> xxx.xxx.100.2  eth0 (used for client connections)
>> xxx.xxx.200.2  eth1 (used for interconnect, cluster communication)
>>
>> xxx.xxx.100.100 address for clients to connect to apache.
>>
>>
>> My question is how do I configure the apache service (and / or the  
>> resources)  to use client interfaces using the vip address?
>>
>> If i need to provide more information, please ask.  This is my  
>> first go at setting up a cluster.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> B
>>
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>
> One way to do this is similar to a way that I have done on previous  
> customer.  We had several different NICs each with a VLANed IP and  
> we used differing DNS names attached to each NIC to allow the  
> traffic to be routed via particular NICs.
>
> So you might want the following in DNS:
>
> nodea.example.com = xxx.xxx.100.1
> nodea-cluster.example.com = xxx.xxx.200.1
> nodeb.example.com = xxx.xxx.100.2
> nodeb-cluster.example.com = xxx.xxx.200.2
>
> In the previous installation, we had to also put in place some  
> advanced IP routing policies through the iproute2 package.  The  
> trick is to send any traffic received on the eth1 that back out via  
> eth1 - not via the default route (which would be eth0).
>
> Linux Journal has an article on how to do this titled "Overcoming  
> Asymmetric Routing on Multi-Homed Servers" found at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7291 
> .
>
> Then you just define in your cluster.conf that the two nodes are  
> nodea-cluster.example.com and nodeb-cluster.example.com instead of  
> nodea.example.com etc. etc.
>
> We ran in to our fair share of network traffic problems with this  
> sort of configuration due to the complexity of the network we were  
> working with but once we had tuned it, it worked quite well.
>
> If you can, I'd recommend you make yourself friendly with top-gun  
> network engineer to help you assist you with networking issues  
> should they arise. They can be invaluable when troubleshooting  
> something that doesn't work :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Stewart
>
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