3. Background of the LVS Cluster

The Red Hat LVS cluster is based either directly on contributions from the Linux community, or on components that were inspired or enriched by Linux community projects.

The primary source of the LVS cluster is Wensong Zhang's Linux Virtual Server (LVS) kernel routing algorithm (see http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org). The capabilities of the LVS project that the Red Hat LVS cluster currently supports are:

The LVS innovations supported by the Red Hat LVS cluster are based on a number of technologies including Network Address Translation (NAT), IP Masquerading, and Port Forwarding. For a good general discussion and index of the relevant HOWTOs on these and related topics, see http://www.linas.org/linux/load.html.