From: Joel Newkirk <netfilter@newkirk.us>
To: Jean-Yves Simon <lethalwp@tiscali.be>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: load balancing?
Date: 14 Jun 2003 11:36:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1055605015.1853.37.camel@alpha.newkirk.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1055591653.2543.3.camel@little.lethalwp>
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 07:54, Jean-Yves Simon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm curious if load balancing can be done with iptables, like for
> example forwarding incoming web requests to one of the multiple web
> servers behind the firewall.
>
> Or is a third party software needed?
If all you need is to distribute requests evenly across a range of IPs
you can use the rule:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to
10.10.10.1-10.10.10.16
This example would attempt to distribute incoming HTTP requests evenly
across the specified range of 16 IPs.
j
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-14 11:54 load balancing? Jean-Yves Simon
2003-06-14 15:36 ` Joel Newkirk [this message]
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2003-06-15 1:28 Antonio Paulo Salgado Forster
2003-06-13 4:51 Jean-Yves Simon
2003-06-17 19:00 ` Garcia Ruiz
2003-06-18 13:39 ` Fabrice MARIE
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