Michael Schwartzkopff wrote: > Am Montag, 13. Oktober 2008 13:38 schrieb Florian Haas: >> Hello, >> >> inspired by a discussion with the SerNet guys at Linux Kongress last >> week, here's a thought I'd like to poll comments on. >> > (...) >> Now I wonder if one could add functionality to the IPaddr2 RA to achieve >> in essence the same thing. Suppose that triggered by an optional >> resource parameter, IPaddr2 would invoke a mechanism similar to the one >> employed by cutter (http://www.lowth.com/cutter/) after IP address >> takeover. In conjunction with a TCP connection state replication utility >> such as conntrackd (http://conntrack-tools.netfilter.org/), this should >> enable the RA to actively cut off TCP connections to that IP address, >> forcing a client reconnect. > (...) > > Nice idea. What happens if conntrackd is activated on a cluster and a > failover > occures? Shouldn't the application send a RST on its own? Anybody tried this?
Yes I have, and it doesn't. I don't see how it would, unless the application replicated its own application-level state to the peer. Florian -- : Florian G. Haas : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna, Austria DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT. _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
