Re: SV: local node and remote nodes - Problem!

[Jacob Coby <jcoby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, David Osojnik wrote:
>
> > Seems like the LVS is accepting connections OK but then when waiting for
> > FIN packet something is wrong? Like the connections on Remote hosts dont
> > end? (they wait for timeout)?
> In LVS-DR, the director doesn't see the packets going back from the 
> realserver to the client and doesn't know whether the realserver has 
> closed the connection. Instead the director fabricates the state of the 
> connection at the realserver based on a list of timeouts. The director 
> does knows the state of the connection for the localnode realserver.
Which makes me wonder - would there be any advantage to creating an 
indirect route (IDR) mode where the realserver uses the director as its 
router?  Of course, that removes the bandwith advantage that DR mode has 
and pretty much makes it NAT without the address translation.
--
-Jacob