[distcc] Re: newcome (and a question)

[Martin Pool]

On 12 Dec 2002, Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna at giref.ulaval.ca> wrote:

> Yeah, I was thinking of some sort of round-robin on a port-forwarding firewall 
> rule, but:
> 1) I'm not sure this is possible with the iptables of today :-)
> 2) More than just round-robin is needed. 

Keep it simple:

First, just forward ports on the front machine to distcc servers in
the cluster.  (This is needed if the clients can't reach into the
cluster directly.)  

Configure clients to use that:

  DISTCC_HOSTS="front:4200 front:4201 front:4202" 

Alternatively, I think there are some load-balancing TCP port
forwarders available for Linux; a simple search should find them.

-- 
Martin