Those things Francois suggested may work or some sort of gateway/proxy
application that acts as a middleman and handles the redirection.

Matt

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From: twsocket-boun...@elists.org [mailto:twsocket-boun...@elists.org] On
Behalf Of Francois PIETTE
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:42 AM
To: ICS support mailing
Subject: Re: [twsocket] Business offer--clustering support

> Let's say we have two computers running our software. One of them is 
> on
> IP1
> and the other IP2. If the IP1 fails for hardware/software reason, IP2 
> should be answering as if IP1 has never failed or with some low 
> interval.
> Something
> like NLB but with failover support as we will have full 
> application-aware layer (HTTP(S)).
>
> In my opinion, this could be made with DNS or with DHCP IP change from 
> IP2 to IP1 of the machine who use to have IP2.

DNS, maybe. Problem when client has fixed IP configured.
DHCP, probably not. How would the client know the new IP ?


> Francois and I wonder what else methods people on the list might
> suggest(?)

Using BigIP product (http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/) or similar.
Using Windows Clustering (never used nor even studied it).

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