[nzlug] FTP Reverse Proxy

[Daniel Faulknor]

Maybe its just going to be FTP on non-standard ports.
Never mind, the people im hosting for will live.

Thanks Shane

Daniel


Shane wrote:
> On Saturday 30 September 2006 19:22, Daniel Faulknor wrote:
>   
>> Isn't what i'm trying to do different?
>> Doesn't load balancing mean that the requests are forwarded to different
>> servers, one after the other, instead of specifically going to one server?
>> or did i misread something?
>>
>> Daniel
>>     
>
> Sort of
> Load balancing means you control which server gets the load put on it
> Round Robin Load balancing is what you have described, but Load balancing can 
> mean requests to http://localhost/mail are sent to a differnet machine than 
> http://localhost/images
>
> http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/mini-HOWTO/LVS-mini-HOWTO.html#what
> answers some of your questions
> And seems to give a final answer on the ftp issue
>
> "Multiport services (eg ftp for LVS-NAT) are also handled as a special case. 
> Other multiport protocols (e.g. passive ftp, http/https for e-commerce sites) 
> are handled by LVS persistance or more recently by fwmark in the HOWTO."
>
> Active Ftp seems not to be supported (which is a PITA)
>
>
>
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