LVS - Load Balancer - Help

[Paul Kozlenko]

First - I would like to thank Simon and yourself for your responses.

Shinoj,
I downloaded this, compiled it - and wow - one command line later - it 
works.
Perfect.

Just a note - I have installed it on OpenSuSE 10.1 - just in case you wanted 
to know.

I'm in heaven - "Open" heaven.

Thanks
- Paul
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From: "VGS" <vgs-XzQKRVe1yT0V+D8aMU/kSg at public.gmane.org>
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Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: LVS - Load Balancer - Help


>
> Hi,
>
> I did not fully understand your setup . You can use pen 
> (http://siag.nu/pen/ ) if you are looking for a load balancer for "simple" 
> tcp based protocols such as http or smtp.
>
> Regards,
> Shinoj.
>
>
> Paul Kozlenko wrote:
>
>> Anyone,
>> I am trying to configure a load balancer and I am running into a brick 
>> wall.
>>
>> LVS seems to be the project that handles this but I keep running into one 
>> snag. I am not sure if there is a way around it. My scenario is that I 
>> have two devices that are like appliances (turn on and work - no command 
>> prompt or other - just fill in the blank to make it do what it was 
>> intended). All the documentation suggests that I need to setup a loopback 
>> interface that points to the virtual IP on each of the real servers.
>>
>> I would prefer to connect all devices (Real Server, Load Balancer and 
>> Client) on the same network - i.e. 172.27.100.0. That is - the real 
>> servers (appliances) and the clients do not have to change.
>>
>> The only Linux box in this whole thing is the load balancer. We have 
>> already used Juniper load balancers at $15K each and from what I 
>> understand, the only thing that needs to change using these is that the 
>> client points to a virtual IP rather than the real IP of either one of 
>> the real servers. The Juniper boxes work well, but the price of these ... 
>> well ... if it can be avoided.
>>
>> I would like to accomplish the same thing.
>>
>> The best information I have found thus far is:
>> http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/mini-HOWTO/LVS-mini-HOWTO.html
>>
>> If someone can suggest where to look to configure this. Where I can 
>> buy/download a prebuilt distro to do this. Or if someone can configure 
>> what I want for me. I would be willing to pay for the help of course ( I 
>> would have to be invoiced ).
>>
>> Any help on this would be appreciated
>>
>> Thanks
>> - Paul
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