On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:13:03PM +0100, Patrick Schaaf wrote:
 
> If you want exchange of connection
> state information between two machines, there is no solution implemented
> (or planned, as far as I know) for now.

I actually am planning something - but due to the size of the task I want
to make sure I can spend full time on this job.  I'm still trying to get
funding.  As soon as funding is clear, I will start implementation.  It 
currently looks like I'll be able to start in mid/end of quarter 2 2002.

> There is a multicast based state exchange implemented in the load balancing
> implementation found at www.linuxvirtualserver.org. But that's seperate
> from the iptables conntracking.

yes.  I've looked at the code.  Their state exchange might work OK for
load balacing - but the code can definitely not be used for connection
tracking. They have all kinds of heuristics and fixed timeouts independent
of the connection state.

> best regards
>   Patrick

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