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

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