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Krzysztof_Kozlo
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May 02, 2007

TCP redirect on LB_FAILED for in-band health check.

We have several situations in the enterprise where it is desirable to have a large number of farmed services run on a single pool of servers. New instances come online all the time, and only TCP heal...
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JRahm
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May 04, 2007
Actually, Cisco LocalDirector (yes, that dinosaur) did this passive monitoring. It removed members from the pool after X number of failed tcp handshake attempts, then occasionally would throw bones back at it in attempts to bring it back "online"

 

 

I was hoping that the passive monitoring hyped for 9.4 was in line with this, but it is not the same.