Middle Tier Load Balancing

Question

We're using Cisco IOS SLB for MTS connections. The problem is that if a server goes offline, users have to reboot to connect to the other. Were pursuing a feature in IOS SLB which provides stateful failover.
The question is, once the client attaches to MTS, does the workstation agent use the original address/hostname, or does it detect the host name and address and replace the load balanced server ID?
Is there client side configuration to support load balancing MTS?

Answer 1

Normally I've seen this done via a DNS Address that represents the L4
Switch, so the DNS Address of MT Server would not actually change.
One issue you may be seeing is that if the IP Address the DNS name resolves
does change, the workstation will not see the change because XP caches DNS
results for up to 24hrs.
A Reboot or "ipconfig /dnsflush" would be required. This is generally an
issue more with DNS Round-Robin than L4 Switches.
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> We're using Cisco IOS SLB for MTS connections. The problem is that if a
> server goes offline, users have to reboot to connect to the other.
> We're pursuing a feature in IOS SLB which provides stateful failover.
>
> The question is, once the client attaches to MTS, does the workstation
> agent use the original address/hostname, or does it detect the host name
> and address and replace the load balanced server ID?
>
> Is there client side configuration to support load balancing MTS?
>
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