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 <ro...@rlmedia.co.nz> 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. > _______________________________________________ > Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: > http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ > > LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - lvs-users@LinuxVirtualServer.org > Send requests to lvs-users-requ...@linuxvirtualserver.org > or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users -- Regards, Malcolm Turnbull. Loadbalancer.org Ltd. Phone: +44 (0)870 443 8779 http://www.loadbalancer.org/ _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - lvs-users@LinuxVirtualServer.org Send requests to lvs-users-requ...@linuxvirtualserver.org or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
