On 29/06/06, SmallFries <smallfries at gmail.com> wrote: > Currently on a CentOS 4.3 system with the 2.6.14.3 kernel. > Is there a recommend way to properly recompile the kernel? > > I was thinking of dling the source from kernel.org, but I was told that > using SRPMs would be better? > Any suggestions ? IPVS functionality is already available as a module in the default kernel. No need to go compiling your own. [root at lvs1b ~]# rpm -qf /lib/modules/2.6.9-34.EL/kernel/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs.ko kernel-2.6.9-34.EL [root at lvs1b ~]# grep -Ei '(ipvs)|(ip_vs)' /boot/config-`uname -r` CONFIG_IP_VS=m # CONFIG_IP_VS_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_IP_VS_TAB_BITS=12 # IPVS transport protocol load balancing support CONFIG_IP_VS_PROTO_TCP=y CONFIG_IP_VS_PROTO_UDP=y CONFIG_IP_VS_PROTO_ESP=y CONFIG_IP_VS_PROTO_AH=y # IPVS scheduler CONFIG_IP_VS_RR=m CONFIG_IP_VS_WRR=m CONFIG_IP_VS_LC=m CONFIG_IP_VS_WLC=m CONFIG_IP_VS_LBLC=m CONFIG_IP_VS_LBLCR=m CONFIG_IP_VS_DH=m CONFIG_IP_VS_SH=m CONFIG_IP_VS_SED=m CONFIG_IP_VS_NQ=m # IPVS application helper CONFIG_IP_VS_FTP=m If it's additional tools you need, Heartbeat, ipvsadm etc. then these are available from Extras (Heartbeat 1.2.3, ipvsadm 1.24 -http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/4/extras/i386/RPMS/ ) and Testing repositories (Heartbeat 2.0.4-1 - http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ ) Will.