Re: Load balancing SMTP servers
George Borisov <george@dxsolutions.co.uk> writes:
> We are in the process of changing firewalls. The old firewall has load
> balancing configured for our SMTP servers using ipvsadm (single
> eternal address alternating between several internal servers).
>
> The new firewall will be using iptables for port forwarding and I am
> having a bit of a problem figuring out how to load balance our SMTP
> traffic.
>
> I would like to keep using ipvsadm but I can't think of a way to stop
> it from getting mixed up with iptables.
Er, it generally "just works." For detailed documentation take a look
at the "UltraMonkey" website and the LVS website, both of which discuss
this in some detail.
I also note that I had a very similar system working quite nicely, with
both LVS and iptables rules in place.
Regards,
Daniel
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