Mailing List Archive: ICMP messages and LVS

Hello,

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, joern maier wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> is there anybody who can tell me, what happens with ICMP messages
> specified for a Realserver. Or more exactly what happens if for example
> an ICMP host unreachable messages is send to the LVS because a client
> got down ?
> Are the entrys from the connection table removed ?

No

> Are the messages forwarded to the Realservers ?

Yes, the embedded TCP or UDP datagram is inspected and
this information is used to forward the ICMP message to the right
real server. All other messages that are not related to existing
connections are accepted locally.

> cheers,
> Joern

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>