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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: horms@verge.net.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jkrzyszt@tis.icnet.pl, ja@ssi.bg,
	wensong@linux-vs.org, jmack@wm7d.net, ratz@drugphish.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LVS: Send ICMP unreachable responses to end-users when real-servers are removed
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:45:25 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070305.204525.85408819.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070211030441.GB3383@verge.net.au>

From: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:04:43 +0900

> this is a small patch by  Janusz Krzysztofik to ip_route_output_slow()
> that allows VIP-less LVS linux director to generate packets originating
> >From VIP if sysctl_ip_nonlocal_bind is set.
> 
> In a nutshell, the intention is for an LVS linux director to be able
> to send ICMP unreachable responses to end-users when real-servers are
> removed.
> 
> http://archive.linuxvirtualserver.org/html/lvs-users/2007-01/msg00106.html
> 
> I'm not really sure about the correctness of this approach,
> so I am sending it here to netdev for review
> 
> Cc: Janusz Krzysztofik <jkrzyszt@tis.icnet.pl>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>

I'm not against this patch or the idea, I just want to
think about it some more to make sure there are not bad
unintended side effects to allowing this.

If someone else could provide some feedback or comments,
I'd very much appreciate that as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-06  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-11  3:04 [PATCH] LVS: Send ICMP unreachable responses to end-users when real-servers are removed Horms
2007-03-06  4:45 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-03-27  1:04 ` David Miller
2007-03-27 10:53   ` Janusz Krzysztofik

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