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Hi,
you can try introducing more than one director by using an active/active setup
i.e. with http://security.maruhn.com/iptables-tutorial/x8906.html
so your incoming connections are also spread across 4 directors
malte
Am 18.01.2011 um 00:07 schrieb Roger Littin:
> I have got it set up using direct routing.
>
> The connections where the user is viewing the content is ok as the traffic
> through the the LVS is only small packets and the big video packets are
> going out directly from the real servers. When the connection is a
> broadcasting connection, all the video packets are incoming so go through
> the LVS to the real servers. It is these connections that I would like to
> hand off completely.
>
> I can set up the media servers to do a redirect. This is how I had the
> servers set up originally. One server was acting as a load balancer and
> redirecting the viewers to the other servers but the problem is that most of
> the encoders that are used for broadcasting cannot handle the redirect.
>
> Roger.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malcolm Turnbull
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:15 AM
> To: LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list.
> Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Fw: Is it possible to completely handoff the
> connection to the realserver?
>
> Roger,
>
> The best method is to use Direct Routing which reduces the load on LVS
> by about 50x for streaming media.
> Or get your app server to do a re-direct after the first connection
> (but then you loose all the advantages of a load balancer).
>
>
>
>
> On 17 January 2011 11:59, Roger Littin <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This is the scenario,
>>
>> I have a cluster of streaming media servers set up using LVS to load
>> balance between them.
>>
>> It works fine when all the clients are viewing videos but with any clients
>> that are actually broadcasting to the servers, their entire session is
>> going through the director node before getting to the real server so the
>> incoming bandwidth on the director is quite high.
>>
>> Is it possible to handoff the connection completely to the realserver
>> after the initial connection? The streaming connections are basically a
>> single socket connection which stays open for the duration of the session
>> so there is really no need for it all to go through the director anyway.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Roger.
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Malcolm Turnbull.
>
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