Coyote Point Systems Equalizer GX Series, Administration Manual

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Working with Clusters and Match Rules
The fields on this screen are as follows:
Protocol
The protocol selected in the Add Cluster form will be displayed “grayed
out”.
VID
The VLAN ID number assigned to the VLAN on which the cluster resides.
Refer to
Common Networking Scenarios for details.
IP
Enter the IP address, which is the dotted decimal IP address of the cluster.
The IP address of the cluster is the external address with which clients con-
nect to the cluster.
Port
For TCP protocol clusters the numeric port number on the Equalizer to be
used for traffic between the clients and the cluster. For TCP clusters, the
port defaults to 80. This port also becomes the default port for servers
added to the cluster (though servers can use a different port number than
the one used by the cluster).
Preferred Peer
Used with Active-Active Failover. Refer to Configuring Active/Active Fail-
over Between Two Systems for details.
Server Pool
A drop down list used to select a Server Pool, or grouping of servers, to
which the cluster will communicate with.
Abort server
By default, when a client closes a connection, Equalizer waits for a
response from the server before closing the server connection. If this flag
is enabled, Equalizer will not wait for a response before closing the con-
nection to the server; instead it sends a TCP RST (reset) to the server
when the client closes the connection. This option will typically reduce the
number of server connections in the TIME_WAIT state, as shown by the
netstat console command.
Delayed Binding
If this option is selected, the client must send the first byte of data on
newly established connection.
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