Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] iptables CLUSTERIP target, seq_file version

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:52:08 -0700

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:36:55 +0200
Harald Welte <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This is the 'CLUSTERIP' target for iptables, this time no core kernel
> changes required, please apply.
> 
> This enables you to build a static load sharing cluster between multiple
> nodes - without the requirement to have a load balancer.  It uses a
> series of [evil] tricks like replying with linklayer multicast addresses
> to ARP requests, and using CONNMARK for stateful blocking all traffic
> not intended for the local node.

It's clever and nasty, I like it :-)

Thanks for cleaning it up to use seq_file.  Patch applied.