[ILUG] TCP load balancing on rinetd (or anything else)

[Martin J Donlon]

iptables is a 2.3/2.4 kernel thing. I don't think it has or ever will be
back ported to the 2.2 series.

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:17:17PM -0000, Adrian Flynn wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt replies!!
> 
> This seems a simple solution... I am currently using ipchains on the
> firewall/load balancer. Is it a big job to switch to iptables? The benefits
> would seem to be worthwhile.
> 
> Note that I am using the SuSE 7.0 Professional distribution. This is
> published with an iptables package, yet all the iptables documentation
> refers to kernel 2.3 or above. Is this a SuSE patched version? The SuSE
> website is down at the moment, so I can't check it out.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Adrian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> Martin J Donlon
> Sent: 19 February 2001 13:24
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] TCP load balancing on rinetd (or anything else)
> 
> 
> Yeah, using the DNAT target, connections can be routed in a round-robin
> system. Its at pretty basic way to do things and I think iptables might
> have more advanced support for this kind of stuff, its detailed in the
> NAT-HOWTO. Something like this would suffice:
> 
> iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -d 192.168.1.1 -j DNAT --to
> 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.10
> 
> That would route all connections to 192.168.1.1 to the machines
> 192.168.1.1 through to 192.168.1.10.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:09:33PM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > I think iptables can do this .. (kernel firewall stuff in 2.4)
> >
> > someone else mentioned this a while back I think ...
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Adrian Flynn wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Has anybody come across any extensions to rinetd (the TCP redirector)
> which
> > > allows round-robin or other type of load balancing? or are there any
> other
> > > packages which might do this? I have come across a few load balancers
> but
> > > they appear to work with the HTTP protocol only. My data stream is in
> > > FastCGI format, and I want to spread the load over several servers.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help
> > >
> > > Adrian Flynn
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