connecting through the lvs twice - failover fails

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Sebastian Vieira wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've setup LVS-NAT for telnet sessions and LVS-DR for rdp (ms terminal
> server). Now i have these connections:
>
> [client] -- [lvs] -- [rdp server] -- [lvs] -- [telnet server]

I assume you've read about such setups in the HOWTO?

> Now i do a forced failover (stop heartbeat process) on the active node

active director? active realserver?

> and then things get 'weird' (at least, for me). Usually 
> the telnet connection stays up, but the rdp connection 
> drops. Problem is that when a telnet session is started 
> from within the rdp session, the user gets back into the 
> rdp session, but the login has to be kicked off the telnet 
> server manually.

is this connected to the failover problem?

> My question:  is this a workable setup, or is it doomed to fail?

I don't know anything about rdp so can't say. Make sure you 
understand the problems of realservers being clients in an 
LVS.

Joe

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