On 2008-10-13T15:14:58, Lars Ellenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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?
> forwarded connections will survive transparently.
That might be a good reason for a separate "conntrackd" RA, as it'd be
cool if we could do stateful firewall fail-over out of the box, and then
build the "tickle" extension on top.
> tickle acks provoking client side action on the sessions,
> leading to immediate RST and re-establish may reduce the time
> it takes the client to recognize the failover.
Yes, really a pretty cool idea - one of those where one wonders how we
failed to come up with it in the past ;-)
Regards,
Lars
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