I do not have the answer.

I'd like to know more though. What version / 
patch level are the NT machines. Does the 
"Window Load Balancing Software" come 
bundled, or is it a separate package (version?)?
Where can more info be had on how it 
operates? Does it spoof IPs or MACs to get 
it's job done? Does IPTables have a problem 
with that? Mostly curious, but good luck!

Troy

>>> jhawley at bgea.org 11/26/01 09:00AM >>>
Hi.

I've a firewall running Netfilter/iptables 1.2.3-2 on Linux 2.4.13.  Does anyone
know of any issues / incompatabilities with Webservers running IISv5 on multiple
NT machines with "Window Load Balancing Software"?

The web sites run off their own IP's (about 30 of them) and some sites/ip's
route through the firewall while others don't.  However if they take one of the
two "clustered" machines down, then everything appears to work correctly.

Iptables rules treat all these website ip's the same.

I know this is sketchy .. I was just wondering, generally, if there are any
gotcha's with this setup that anyones heard of.  (I'm thinking maybe something
with the connection tracking and the webservers doing redirection between each
other??)

I couldn't find any mention of this problem in the Netfilter list archives, so
I'm hoping its just a misconfiguration on the NT's.

Thanks.

--
John Hawley
BGEA/ITS <=> Network Admin
612.335.1334
jhawley at bgea.org 





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