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Frank_29876
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Aug 12, 2011

How to balance to servers with an outbound-initiated connection

Today our server initiates a TCP connection to a provider which then sends our server requests.     We want to now have multiple servers handle these requests.     If the provider inititat...
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Frank_29876
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Aug 15, 2011
From a connection point of view to the provider this seems the most logical, but I concerned with how to manage this.

 

I don't want the f5 connected when there are no servers up.

 

So how does it know when to connect and disconnect?

 

I don't want manual intervention.

 

 

Seems like I would want to tie it into the server group heartbeating, but I'm not sure how.