You're correct about the dummy interface. That had already fixed my problem.
Thanks for the reply though.
-Dennis
On 10/5/07, Gustavo <lungpu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dennis, I didn't try what you want to do yet (it's in something like the
> stack of todo tasks ;) but I needed when implemented vservers here to set up
> a dummy interface, I think this could help you. I've tried to schemes: the
> vserver host on the lan and vps guests on a private lan with the host as
> gateway/firewall. The another is connecting out the host and the guests into
> the same lan, all of them at the same level. In this last case the host is
> still the firewall for the others but there's no network isolation. The
> dummy interface in the first case, exists for the host and have one extra ip
> for every guest you have. In the second, no dummy ip for the host is needed,
> so they are only setup for the guests.
> If you need some examples, I can send you some lines.
>
> Regards,
> Gustavo
>
>
>
> On 10/5/07, Dennis Muhlestein < djmuhlestein@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > is the guest aware if that address at service bind time?
> >
> > Actually, the issue I was having is that the real servers behind the
> > HA balancers did not have proper networking set up. I needed a dummy
> > interface with the cloned ip address and had not discovered that step
> > yet.
> >
> > >
> > > > Has anyone done this?
> > >
> > > no, why do you try to put the HA stuff into a guest?
> > > HA setups on the host (for guests) are known to work
> > > perfectly fine, including complete guest failovers
> >
> > The reason is that my HA machines are not providing HA for vserver
> > machines. I have some real websites that I wanted load balancing and
> > redundancy for. I didn't want to put the HA machines on the real
> > machines and didn't have two extra servers to build into load
> > balancers. HA takes so few resources that I decided it practical to
> > install a couple HA guests on my existing vserver hosts. It's easy to
> > back them up with my other vserver backups and is working quite well
> > now actually.
> >
> > Thank you for the reply!
> > -Dennis
> >
>
>
>
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