A connection is between the client and VIP on the LVS box.
Even any commercial load balancer if using VIP will do the
same -- the connection would be dead. It is up to the client
to click on the "reload" button to get new connection going.
At 12:55 PM 8/14/00 -0700, Dayton Turner wrote:
>Hi There, I've just set up a 2machine load balanced webserver using
>VS-NAT, everything works great, I only have one concern. I decided to
>see what would happen if i unplugged the lan cable from machine 2, and
>sent a request to the director. Sure enough, it just sat there waiting
>for a connection. Just like I hoped. Now, I'll remove the ipvsadm entry
>for that machine, hoping the request will fall over onto machine 1. Such
>things do not happen. I figured this was important in the real world if
>a machine went down before the monitoring program found out, and someone
>had requested a page before the machine was pulled from the pool. Anyone
>know a way to make dead existing connections fall over to a working
>webserver?
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>Thanks
>Dayton
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