I've managed to configure a LVS Cluster to act as a transparent proxy squid farm, with a virtual server as load balancer, and three real servers. Because redirecting packets going to port 80 to port 3128 of squid in the load balancer doesn't works, the solution has a mix of ip route and iptables.

Here is the script I wrote to configure transparent proxy.

#!/bin/bash #Transparent proxy configuration #Variables VIP=192.168.18.10 WEB=80 SRV01=192.168.18.40 SRV02=192.168.18.41 SRV03=192.168.18.42

#Packet marking iptables -t mangle -F iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport $WEB --dst ! $VIP -j MARK --set-mark 2

#Routing table creation if [ $(grep -sq 'www.out' /etc/iproute2/rt_tables) ]; then echo "Table exists" else echo "202 www.out" >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables fi

#Clean tables and rules ip rule del prio 100 fwmark 2 table www.out ip route flush table www.out

#Routing of marked packets ip rule add prio 100 fwmark 2 table www.out ip route add table www.out to local 0/0 dev lo ip route flush cache

#ipvsadm rules ipvsadm -A --fwmark-service 2 ipvsadm -a --fwmark-service 2 --real-server $SRV01 --gatewaying ipvsadm -a --fwmark-service 2 --real-server $SRV02 --gatewaying ipvsadm -a --fwmark-service 2 --real-server $SRV03 --gatewaying

As you can see, I mark all packets not directed to the virtual server itself, to port 80 with 2, and then route all those marked packets to the loopback interface.

With ipvsadm I forward the marked packets to the real servers. In the real servers there's a rule in the prerouting chain to redirect those packets to port 3128

I'm using pulse service to start lvs, and would like to add the ipvsadm rules to the /etc/sysconfig/ha/lvs.cf, so they are issued by pulse at startup. I can't figure out how to do it. When I try to start pulse, it fails because i left the address field empty. But this service is not tied to any address, I just want the fwmark match to forward the packets to the real servers. I also have dns in this lvs cluster.

Any suggestion about how I can add my ipvsad rules to the lvs.cf file?