On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Horms wrote:
> 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.
>
OK, I'll do. Please check if anything is missing, after it is done.
Thanks,
Wensong
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