connecting through the lvs twice - failover fails

[Sebastian Vieira]

On 7/27/06, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
>
> > [client] -- [lvs] -- [rdp server] -- [lvs] -- [telnet server]
>
> I assume you've read about such setups in the HOWTO?


I shamefully admit that i haven't, but will do so right away.

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


active director

> 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?


I don't know. I was kind of hoping it was obvious to others if this is
related. I only have this problem when i do a failover, so in that case yes.

> 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.


I'll definately read up about it and post back with my findings.

Joe


Thanks,

Sebastian