Hey Mog,
Just a thought? How hard would it be to replicate the sessions across
multiple servers? That way could use Layer 4 and not worry about
persistence.
Sameer
On Nov 23, 2007 6:56 PM, mog <mog@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all hope this doesn't come to everyone thrice, apparently lvs
> mailing list doesn't like pgp signatures...
>
> I have only recently found out about all of your great
> work,
> thanks to
> any and all who have worked on the project thus far. My
> questions
> revolve around an application I am building. It is a chat
> server that
> talks over udp. It is not a one packet per session protocol
> unfortunately. So the current lvs way of routing for 300
> seconds or so
> doesn't really work for me I am hoping there is a solution i am
> missing.
> Here are the two solutions I see.
> So I am able to maintain state across my real servers so
> I could
> have
> the director send all packets to all real servers, and then the
> servers
> would decide how to properly respond. Is there a method for
> this?
> My second solution would be require work for sure, have
> the
> director
> look at the first 4 bytes of the udp packet, as that contains
> all the
> session information i would need, and could route to the correct
> real
> server or another real server if the correct real server died.
> I
> realize this would require work but would be beneficial to
> people
> needing to do things like sip or h.323 and other session based
> udp
> connections.
>
> Mog
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Send requests to lvs-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
>
|