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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: DNAT/NAPT
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:54:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041123195407.GA2891@bender.817west.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <co03tv$7f0$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:43:56PM -0500, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I think that it is possible to achieve some kind of load-balancing 
> between two servers using iptables NAPT (Network and port translation, 
> which is usually called port forwarding).
> 
> I want to run 2 web servers and use my firewall to do some 
> load-balancing between them, but I was wondering if it only forwarded 
> the packets on some round-robin way, even if one host is down.  To 
> summarize, I want to know if I can do some automatic failover with iptables.
> 
> If you need more info, let me know

why not do it for real?

  http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/

-j

--
"That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going
 to clown college!"
        --The Simpsons


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-23 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-23 19:43 DNAT/NAPT Ugo Bellavance
2004-11-23 19:54 ` Jason Opperisano [this message]
2004-11-23 20:20   ` DNAT/NAPT Ugo Bellavance

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