[lug] LVS / Piranha

[Jeff Schroeder]

Ryan wrote:

> I'd like
> to configure the firewall box to be a load balancer for the web
> traffic, but I can't quite decide how to go about it.

If I remember correctly, iptables has the ability to "load-balance" 
traffic.  You can configure it to re-route incoming packets on a port 
to two (or more) other ports behind the firewall.  I think it does a 
simple toggle algorithm, where alternating packets are routed to 
alternating servers.

Unfortunately, I don't remember off the top of my head what the iptables 
rule would be.  And of course this assumes your firewall device will be 
using iptables... ;)

HTH,
Jeff