Lab 2 Installing LVS Administration Package

Preparation

1. Read the articles about using IP Tunneling to increase the scalability of a virtual server at the sites: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/VS-IPTunneling.html
   http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/docs/arp.html Also read the related sites discussed in the articles.
   
   Installing the LVS Administration Package
   
2. Make the following directory to hold the package by $ mkdir /apps/lvs The '$' here denotes that you may carry out the command as an ordinary user.
3. $ cd /apps/lvs
4. Unzip the lvs package that you have downloaded in lab1. $ gunzip -c /apps/download/ipvsadm-1.21.tar.gz | tar xvf -
5. $ cd ipvsadm-1.21
6. Read the README file in the directory.
7. Compile the package by $ make ( If it says some files like ip_vs.h are missing, you may copy those files from the downloaded linux kernel source directory to the system include/net directory and your current directory by commands like "# cp /apps/linux2418/linux/include/net/ip_vs.h    /usr/include/net ". )
8. Login as root and install the package by # make install Read the README file again to understand where it has been installed.
9. Learn to use ipvsadm by # man ipvsadm Make sure you understand the descriptions of the manual. Try some of the commands presented by the manual.