DNAT/NAPT

[Jason Opperisano]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:43:56PM -0500, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I think that it is possible to achieve some kind of load-balancing 
> between two servers using iptables NAPT (Network and port translation, 
> which is usually called port forwarding).
> 
> I want to run 2 web servers and use my firewall to do some 
> load-balancing between them, but I was wondering if it only forwarded 
> the packets on some round-robin way, even if one host is down.  To 
> summarize, I want to know if I can do some automatic failover with iptables.
> 
> If you need more info, let me know

why not do it for real?

  http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/

-j

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