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Mark_35110's avatar
Mark_35110
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Jan 10, 2016

Single SCP copy via F5 - multiple end servers?

Is it possible to create a Virtual Server that copies an SCP file upload stream to multiple servers? i.e. a user sends a file to a Virtual Server IP address and rather than that be load balanced acro...
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Kai_Wilke's avatar
Kai_Wilke
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Jan 11, 2016

Hi Mark,

I guess this configuration would be very difficult to pull of...

  • Each SCP server session would require multiple end-to-end roundtrips to negotiate the connection. So replaying the traffic multiple time wouldn't have any affect.*
  • In addition I believe it would be hardly possible to emulate the SSH server on a virtual server and then 
    [SIDEBAND]
    each individual node. The SSH encryption would causing a lot of headeaches...

BTW: Whats the reason to not use, a single SCP session for each of your servers? (e.g. using the GNU paralel package or some 

foreach node in nodelist
scriptings)

Cheers, Kai