Fault Tolerant long-lived TCP connections

Thanks Aaron,

 

 

I'm not feeling warm and fuzzy. Can we load balance actual TCP traffic? Or just new connections? If the answer is "just new connections", then we're going to have to return our two brand-new 3900 series load balancers because they're not going to do anything for us. The sales rep. claimed this was easy stuff. I can write a C/C++ program to do what we want, which is to open a TCP listener on one side and sockets to two RVD servers on the other side, and round-robin data between the two servers. We chose F5, instead of doing that, because we've got experience with them (i.e. we have a trust relationship from other projects we've used F5 on), and because of F5's HA model (i.e. the F5 isn't a single point of failure). What can I do? I'd like to review all possible solutions before giving up on F5. Thanks.

 

 

Dave