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Re: Supose there are no real servers...

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Supose there are no real servers...
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:55:49 +0900
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:52:23PM +0100, Joao Clemente wrote:
> What should be the behaviour?
> If we think of a simple cenario where there is a only a single realserver,
> the lvs can be tought as a router.
> If it was a router, and there was no machine to route to (because it was
> down) I think a client would receive a "icmp no destination found" or
> similar.
> I've testes with my lvs-dr setup and the client stalls trying to connect...
> I think the above behaviour would make more sense...
> Well, just wanted to do the question, feel free to find it a bug, a feature,
> or simply kick my butt if what I'm saying is nonsense.. (altough in that
> case I would like to understand why it is nonsense)

In LVS-DR the behaviour should be the same as if you 
were connecting to the real server directly and it 
is disconnected. IMHO this means that a timeout
will occur after a while when an attempt is made to
open a connection. The behaviour of LVS seems
to be consistent with this.

-- 
Horms
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