Re: Haproxy - Direct Routing simliar to ipvs/LVS

Quoting Alberto Giménez <lagimenez#gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:57 PM, <eneal#businessgrade.com> wrote:
>> Quoting Alberto Giménez <lagimenez#gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:59 PM, <eneal#businessgrade.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>
> Hi again,
>
> Have you tested the setup? What were the results? I haven't ever tried
> a configuration with haproxy like that one, but you should have no
> problems with the proper network infrastructure (you will have to
> configure routes and so).
>
> I think the point is using the same VIP for the balancer and the
> backend servers. It's a matter of just trying it and debug a little
> bit to see what's going on.

Well I'm looking at migrating from LVS to haproxy. The director simply forwards the IP packet encapsulated in a frame addressed to the real server with the VIP as the dst ip address in the ip packet.

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