Hi list,
We, an OSS advocacy group, setup a Xen 3.1 machine composed of :
. a 64 bits dom0 running Debian stable amd64
. 2 hvm domUs running OpenBSD amd64
. 2 hvm domUs running NetBSD i386
This machine is to be hosted and reachable from the Internet, but it will
only have one public IP.
Naturally, our first tought was to port-forward using iptables /
netfilter. We didn't really though it would be an issue... and that
was a mistake :)
We tried many options, read many hints, even on this list, but no matter
what, the port-forwarding, using a ultra-classic PREROUTING / FORWARD
rule, was given a TCP RST in the best scenario. We read here stories about
activating NAT / masquerading on the domU to fix (???) this issue, but as
the machine is meant to be hosted, that was not the cleanest approach.
And then we took a look at IPVS
(http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/software/ipvs.html), an opensource
Linux kernel module initially meant to act as a loadbalancer. We thought
that providing a unique real server (the domU) to the VIP would do the
trick... and it did ! Here's a quick example of a working configuration :
. dom0 has a public IP address, no services but ssh available
. domU has a RFC1918 address, linked to a bridge on the second ethernet
interface of the dom0
We want to redirect the port 2222 of the dom0 to the port 22 of the domU :
- Install ipvsadm on the dom0 (apt-get install ipvsadm on debian)
- Setup the VIP :
# ipvsadm -A -t <public_ip>:2222 -s rr
We choosed the Round-Robin algorithm, but obviously this has no effect for
us as there will be only one real server behind the loadbalancer
- Insert domU's private IP on the VIP :
# ipvsadm -a -t <public_ip>:2222 -r <domU_private_ip>:22 -m
Here we use the simple masquerading mode of IPVS
- See the output :
root@dom0:~# ipvsadm -L
IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=4096)
Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags
-> RemoteAddress:Port Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn
TCP dom0:2222 rr
-> shells:ssh Masq 1 0 0
And finally, from an outside machine :
imil@tatooine:~$ ssh -p 2222 dom0
imil@dom0_public_ip's password:
Last login: Sun Sep 16 01:15:40 2007 from somewhere_else
OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC) #874: Sat Mar 10 19:09:51 MST 2007
imil@shells
~$
It Works !
Hope this method can save time to some of you, for us it's now the perfect
solution as it provides us also the ability to loadbalance services on
other domU's.
Regards,
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