Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:25:42 -0600 You're correct about the dummy interface. That had already fixed my problem. Thanks for the reply though. -Dennis On 10/5/07, Gustavo <lungpu@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dennis, I didn't try what you want to do yet (it's in something like the > stack of todo tasks ;) but I needed when implemented vservers here to set up > a dummy interface, I think this could help you. I've tried to schemes: the > vserver host on the lan and vps guests on a private lan with the host as > gateway/firewall. The another is connecting out the host and the guests into > the same lan, all of them at the same level. In this last case the host is > still the firewall for the others but there's no network isolation. The > dummy interface in the first case, exists for the host and have one extra ip > for every guest you have. In the second, no dummy ip for the host is needed, > so they are only setup for the guests. > If you need some examples, I can send you some lines. > > Regards, > Gustavo > > > > On 10/5/07, Dennis Muhlestein < djmuhlestein@gmail.com> wrote: > > > is the guest aware if that address at service bind time? > > > > Actually, the issue I was having is that the real servers behind the > > HA balancers did not have proper networking set up. I needed a dummy > > interface with the cloned ip address and had not discovered that step > > yet. > > > > > > > > > Has anyone done this? > > > > > > no, why do you try to put the HA stuff into a guest? > > > HA setups on the host (for guests) are known to work > > > perfectly fine, including complete guest failovers > > > > The reason is that my HA machines are not providing HA for vserver > > machines. I have some real websites that I wanted load balancing and > > redundancy for. I didn't want to put the HA machines on the real > > machines and didn't have two extra servers to build into load > > balancers. HA takes so few resources that I decided it practical to > > install a couple HA guests on my existing vserver hosts. It's easy to > > back them up with my other vserver backups and is working quite well > > now actually. > > > > Thank you for the reply! > > -Dennis > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Promové la cultura, compartí tus libros -- You can see what's happening at http://muhlesteins.com