RE: LVS and Terminal Services

[Peter Mueller <pmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Has anyone used LVS to balance the load for Win2K Terminal
> Servers?  I remember seeing those, but do not know where to
> find anyone has complete summary about them.  Thanks for
> anyone's feedback.

This should be a fairly straightforward setup.  You just have to load
balance TCP:3389 on the VIP.  you MUST packet filter your windows boxes,
there's 5 bazillion UDP + other listens.... (and the built in packet filter
tool, RRAS, **SUCKS**.. (someone tell me if there's a better one please..)

<crappy ascii diagram>
        /------------\
        |Firewall    |
        |x.y.z.a     |
        \------------/
               |
               |eth, only allow tcp:3389 + ssh + _some_ ICMP
               |--------------------------
               |                          \
/------------\/ \/------------\            \
|    LVS-DR  |   | LVS-DR 2   |             \{application servers are at
|            |===|            |              {the same network level as
\------------/ | \------------/              {the LVS boxes.
               |
             serial failover