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From: Bryan Waters <bryanw@abwaters.com>
Subject: Re: anyone know how to use clusterip
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:03:41 -0700
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To: Jason Joines <support@bus.okstate.edu>
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Jason...i've asked the same question already.  It seems that this is new 
enough that absolutely nobody has any experience with it...at least 
nobody on this list.  I'm setting up machines to experiment with this 
now...i'll post my test results to the list.

-bryanw

Jason Joines wrote:
>    I recently noticed the clusterip target extension in my iptables man 
> page.  It looks really interesting but I have no idea how how to go 
> about trying  it out as I'm not exactly sure what it is supposed to do 
> and don't understand exactly what all these options mean.  I've 
> consoulted the netfilter website and googled far and wide but haven't 
> had any luck finding any examples or more documentation.  Is anyone 
> using this thing?
> 
> ~> man iptables
> <--- snip --->
>   CLUSTERIP
>       This  module allows you to configure a simple cluster of nodes 
> that share a certain IP and MAC address without an explicit load
>       balancer in front of them.  Connections are statically distributed 
> between the nodes in this cluster.
> 
>       --new  Create a new ClusterIP.  You always have to set this on the 
> first rule for a given ClusterIP.
> 
>       --hashmode mode
>              Specify the hashing mode.  Has to be one of sourceip, 
> sourceip-sourceport, sourceip-sourceport-destport
> 
>       --clustermac mac
>              Specify the ClusterIP MAC address.  Has to be a link-layer 
> multicast address
> 
>       --total-nodes num
>              Number of total nodes within this cluster.
> 
>       --local-node num
>              Local node number within this cluster.
> 
>       --hash-init rnd
>              Specify the random seed used for hash initialization
> <--- snip --->
> ~>
> 
> 
> Jason Joines
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