Chapter 17: Web Hosting Configuration Guide

Virtual IP Address Ranges

ISPs who provide web hosting services for their clients require a large number of virtual IP addresses (VIPs). The load-balance create vip-range-nameand load-balance add host- to-vip-rangecommands were created specifically for this. An ISP can create a range of VIPs for up to an entire class C network with the load-balance create vip-range-namecommand. Once the vip-range is in place, the ISP can then create the corresponding secondary addresses on their destination servers. Once these addresses have been created, the ISP can add these servers to the vip-range with the load-balance add host-to-vip- range command. These two commands combined help ISPs take advantage of web servers like Apache which serve different web pages based on the destination address in the http request. The following example illustrates this:.

S1

10.1.1.16www.computers.com

10.1.1.17www.dvd.com

10.1.1.18www.vcr.com

...

10.1.1.50 www.toys.com

S2

10.1.2.16www.computers.com

10.1.2.17www.dvd.com

10.1.2.18www.vcr.com

...

10.1.2.50 www.toys.com

Router

Internet

Web requests:

207.135.89.16 www.computers.com 207.135.89.17 www.dvd.com 207.135.89.18 www.vcr.com

...

207.135.89.50 www.toys.com

Group Name

Virtual IP

TCP Port

Destination

TCP Port

Server IP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.computers.com

207.135.89.16

80

S1: 10.1.1.16

80

 

 

 

S2: 10.1.2.16

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.dvd.com

207.135.89.17

80

S1: 10.1.1.17

80

 

 

 

S2: 10.1.2.17

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.vcr.com

207.135.89.18

80

S1: 10.1.1.18

80

 

 

 

S2: 10.1.2.18

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.toys.com

207.135.89.50

80

S1: 10.1.1.50

80

 

 

 

S2: 10.1.2.50

 

 

 

 

 

 

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