RE: Round Robin Load Balancing

["George Vieira" <georgev@citadelcomputer.com.au>]

>With that regard it doesn't matter if the routing desision has already been made or not...
I would've thought it does matter as your packet has gone through all the proper chain paths and now it's about to leave into the ethernet and your now forcing it back through routing and out again through another interface.. unless the patch jumps a bit or something...

OK the URL makes the point, as you saw my example was all there was so I kinda hard coded that what it was supposed to be used in... (PREROUTING)..
I guess it couldn't hurt trying it though.. ;P

Has anybody tried marking the packets and then using iproute2 instead of the ROUTE patch to go via a different ethernet??

Thanks,
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George Vieira
Systems Manager
georgev@citadelcomputer.com.au

Citadel Computer Systems Pty Ltd
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ramin Dousti [mailto:ramin@cannon.eng.us.uu.net]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 5:26 PM
To: George Vieira
Cc: Javier Govea; netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Round Robin Load Balancing


On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:30:20AM +1000, George Vieira wrote:

> Hate to burst your bubble

Hey, don't worry...

> but isn't the ROUTE module being used a _little_ too late.

No, not really. At least not according to:

http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/pomlist/pom-extra.html#ROUTE

> I mean, it's suppose to reroute to a new device but your using it in POSTROUTING which means it's to late to reroute it (basically leaving the interface and out to the internet)...
> 

That is the traditional routing, but this module _forces_ the packet to go
wherever you want... With that regard it doesn't matter if the routing
desision has already been made or not...

Ramin

> >From memory, the ROUTE module is supposed to be used in PREROUTING on the internal interface so that it doesn't hit the routing table yet and the rule modifies which interface to go out on..
>