Re: [PATCH 2.6] iptables CLUSTERIP target, seq_file version

[Henrik Nordstrom <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Harald Welte wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:44:11PM -0400, jamal wrote:
> > Sorry, couldnt resist - so out of hiding for just a few seconds; should
> > be able to achieve this much simpler with gact.
>
> One of the issues that CLUSTERIP needed to do is to work with
> locally-originated connections, i.e. every node within the cluster still
> has to be able to open tcp connections to anywhere.

Another criteria fulfilled by CLUSTERIP is the ability to do a soft 
failover where the new note accepts all new connections but the old node 
continues processing the connections it already have.

Regards
Henrik