How can I flush the connection table?

[Horms]

In article <2242CF76-779F-4FF4-9F99-D1DE56811F17 at irridia.com> you wrote:
> In my experience, I've had to remove the real server entirely when I  
> have persistence active.  Unless of course you're willing to wait an  
> hour :).  But I also have had new connections continue to trickle in  
> to a zero-weight real server in the absence of persistence, so I  
> think there's also a general issue where a zero weight isn't  
> literally zero.
> 
> I remove real servers within health monitoring in the general case,  
> as opposed to zero-weighting them.  If zero worked as expected, that  
> slightly drastic measure (hard connection interruptions, orphans)  
> wouldn't be necessary.

I belive that the problem you are seeing is the problem that is
addressed by /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/expire_quiescent_template

expire_quiescent_template - BOOLEAN
        0 - disabled (default)
        not 0 - enabled
 
	When set to a non-zero value, the load balancer will expire
	persistant templates when the destination server is quiescent.
	This may be useful, when a user makes a destination server
	quiescent by setting its weight to 0 and it is desired that
	subsequent otherwise persistant connections are sent to a
	different destination server.  By default new persistant
	connections are allowed to quiescent destination servers.
 
	If this feature is enabled, the load balancer will expire the
	persistance template if it is to be used to schedule a new
	connection and the destination server is quiescent.


(I'm currently trying to work out why that and related documentation
 is missing from the kernel tree)

http://archive.linuxvirtualserver.org/html/lvs-users/2004-02/msg00224.html

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