Anyone use ipvsadm on a host?

[rkleemann]

ipvsadm is a Director/load balancer in linux.

It distributes requests to other servers (called "real server") via masquerading. Since it uses masquerading, it requires the realservers to use the main director as the default route.

I was trying to see if it would be possible to have a vbox host as the virtual director, and guests as the realservers.

But I think that would break HIF networking, which I have working nicely, but the guests use the router as the default gateway.

I'm not sure if using the host as the default gateway instead would work?

In that case virtual server through ipvsadm is not doable on vbox host/guests...

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Ricardo