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
|