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Re: splitting up a packet stream

To: Joseph Mack <mack@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: splitting up a packet stream
Cc: Chris Anderson <chris.anderson@xxxxxxxxxx>, LVS <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Julian Anastasov <uli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:57:06 +0300 (EEST)
        Hello,

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Joseph Mack wrote:
> > 
> >     For UDP the picture is different. We can remove the implicit
> > persistence for the UDP connections and to select different real
> > server for each packet.
> 
> I thought that UDP connections to the same service from the same client IP
> all were scheduled to the same real-server, unless there were no
> connections for a timeout period which i thought was about 15mins. I
> remember someone trying to load balance ntp and he was not getting good
> load balancing on a short time scale and this was the reason.

        Yes, this is the current handling. My thought was to implement
a new feature: schedule each UDP packet to new real server. But it
is not possible for TCP. I.e. something like timeout=~0 for UDP
as service flag.

> 
> Joe
> --
> Joseph Mack mack@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 


Regards

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Julian Anastasov <uli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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