Hi, you can try introducing more than one director by using an active/active setup i.e. with http://security.maruhn.com/iptables-tutorial/x8906.html
so your incoming connections are also spread across 4 directors malte Am 18.01.2011 um 00:07 schrieb Roger Littin: > I have got it set up using direct routing. > > The connections where the user is viewing the content is ok as the traffic > through the the LVS is only small packets and the big video packets are > going out directly from the real servers. When the connection is a > broadcasting connection, all the video packets are incoming so go through > the LVS to the real servers. It is these connections that I would like to > hand off completely. > > I can set up the media servers to do a redirect. This is how I had the > servers set up originally. One server was acting as a load balancer and > redirecting the viewers to the other servers but the problem is that most of > the encoders that are used for broadcasting cannot handle the redirect. > > Roger. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Malcolm Turnbull > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:15 AM > To: LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list. > Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Fw: Is it possible to completely handoff the > connection to the realserver? > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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