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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] iptables CLUSTERIP target, seq_file version
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:52:08 -0700
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:36:55 +0200
Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> wrote:

> This is the 'CLUSTERIP' target for iptables, this time no core kernel
> changes required, please apply.
> 
> This enables you to build a static load sharing cluster between multiple
> nodes - without the requirement to have a load balancer.  It uses a
> series of [evil] tricks like replying with linklayer multicast addresses
> to ARP requests, and using CONNMARK for stateful blocking all traffic
> not intended for the local node.

It's clever and nasty, I like it :-)

Thanks for cleaning it up to use seq_file.  Patch applied.