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Re: Re: TCPSP vs IPVS

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Subject: Re: Re: TCPSP vs IPVS
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 18:10:06 +0900
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 04:04:20PM +0800, Aihua Liu wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm sorry for previous mail.
> >TCPSP is ain implementation of TCP socket splicing for the Linux Kernel.
> >This means that you can open a pair of sockets in user space
> >and then join them together in the kernel.
> As I know, TCPSP'work as follows:
> 1. Client builds up the connection with director firstly.
> 2. After the director receives the client requests, then 
> sets up connection with selected real-server and sends the
> requests to it.
> 3. Real-server send replies to director.
> 4. Director receives the replies from the realserver and 
> responses to the client through tcp-splicing.
> I understand it correctly? 

That is how an application that uses TCPSP could work.
And is more or less how the demonstration programme works.
But, TCP is just a mechanism, to allow you 
to splice connections. It is not a programme itself.

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Horms
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