On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:12:14AM -0700, Justin Karneges wrote: >> Well, the network could fail at anytime and have a similar effect. I'm not >> sure >> if killing all connections to the backup is really any worse than killing all >> connections to the non-backup (via on-marked-down). Either way a bunch of >> client errors may occur, but for a scenario that is hopefully rare. > > Killing connections when something fails is acceptable to many people, > but killing connections when everything goes well is generally not accepted. > >> Maybe an "on-marked-up shutdown-backup-sessions" option would be good. > > I was thinking about something like this, but I still have doubts about > its real usefulness. I don't know what others think here. If there is > real demand for this and people think it serves a real purpose, I'm fine > with accepting a patch to implement it. > > Willy > >
It's like the "preempt" in VRRP and it may make sense for any protocol relying on long connections, like HTTP tunnel mode, rdp, IMAP/POP, etc... To me it makes sense :) cheers
