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Re: Failover with a high persistent timeout

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Failover with a high persistent timeout
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 13:20:56 +0900
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:45:06PM +0200, Roberto Nibali wrote:
>       * Added the net.ipv4.vs.expire_nodest_conn sysctl variable.
> 
>       The default value is 0, the load balancer will silently drop
>       packets when its destination server is not available. It may be
>       useful, when user-space monitoring program deletes the destination
>       server (because of server overload or wrong detection) and add
>       back the server later, and the connections to the server can
>       continue.
> 
>       If this variable is set 1, the load balancer will expire the
>       connection immediately when a packet arrives and its destination
>       server is not available, then the client program will be notified
>       that the connection is closed. This is equivalent to the feature
>       some people requires to flush connections when its destination is
>       not available.

Can we please put this, along with any other undocumented
proc entries into ipvsadm(8). I'd be happy to make a patch
if no-one else wants to do it.

-- 
Horms
        


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