Re: Haproxy - Direct Routing simliar to ipvs/LVS

Quoting Alberto Giménez <lagimenez#gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:59 PM, <eneal#businessgrade.com> wrote:
>> mode that haproxy offers that's equivalent to ipvs direct routing. My real
>> servers are Windows 2003 boxes with the VIP bound to the loopback adapter.
>> Is this the equivalent of transparent mode?
>
> Hi!
>
> That has nothing to do to transparent mode AFAIK. Transparent mode
> means the load balancer will connect to the backend serves telling the
> client's IP instead his own. Also, you need to patch the kernel the
> proxy is running on, load the module that adds transparent proxying
> support and tweak haproxy's configuration (no unprivileged users, add
> "use clientsrc" option and so).

Thanks so much for the clarification. It's much appreciated.

> Furthermore, you need the servers for transparent proxying to work to
> GET ROUTED THROUGH the load balancer, so it's not at all as direct
> routing on LVS.

Yeah - This is not what I want to do. I want the real servers to respond to the clients directly - as in what I can do with direct routing and ipvs
>
> You don't need to bind the VIP on the servers. Just do it on the
> haproxy box and let it balance the connections to the servers' real
> IPs. What are you exactly trying to achieve?
Please see above

>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Alberto Giménez
>

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