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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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