IPv6 Server Load Balancing - DSR
Leland Vandervort
leland at taranta.discpro.org
Thu Aug 12 16:40:23 UTC 2010
Hi Owen,
The DSR address is indeed on a loopback in our case.
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
inet6 addr: xxxx:xxxx:x:xxxx::xx/128 Scope:Global
The mystery continues...
Leland
On 12 Aug 2010, at 18:28, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> On Aug 12, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Xavier Beaudouin wrote:
>
>> Hi Leland,
>>
>> Le 12 août 2010 à 15:11, Leland Vandervort a écrit :
>>
>>> OpenSolaris ILB is open solution ;)
>>>
>>> but yea, that's what we've started looking at -- hence LVM / HAProxy as well.. (though LVM is IPv4 only, and HAProxy is NAT only for IPv6)
>>>
>>> does relayd support UDP as well as TCP or is it layer7 only like HAProxy ?
>>
>> It does everything... :) L2 -> L7...
>>
>>> In the case of ILB, I'm not convinced that it's a problem with the LB itself, but rather the idiosyncrasies of ND in IPv6 that is causing the problem.. but I may be wrong... at any rate, something's amiss ...
>>
>> Maybe on some setup you should desactivate ND...
>>
>> Xavier
>
> If you're putting the DSR address on an interface other than loopback, you probably need to turn of DAD on the interface with the DSR address otherwise DAD
> will shut down that address on the interface when it sees other servers with the same address. Sometimes it will shut down all but one, sometimes it will
> shut down all.
>
>
> Owen
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