Alteon Application Switch Operating System Application Guide
Load Balancing Special Services
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Supported RTSP Servers
In a typical scenario, the RTSP client issues several sequences of commands to establish connections
for each component stream of a presentation. There are several variations to this procedure,
depending upon the RTSP client and the server involved. For example, there are two prominent
RTSP server and client implementations.
The RTSP stream setup sequence is different for these two servers, and Alteon handles each
differently:
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Real Server—Real Server from RealNetworks Corporation supports both UDP and TCP transport
protocols for the RTSP streams. The actual transport is negotiated during the initialization of the
connection. If TCP transport is selected, then all streams of data flow in the TCP control
connection itself. If UDP transport is chosen, the client and server negotiate a client UDP port,
which is manually configurable.
The real media files that the Real Server plays have the extension ".rm", ".ram" or ".smil".
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QuickTime Streaming Server—QuickTime Streaming Server from Apple Incorporated
supports a QuickTime presentation that typically has two streams and therefore uses four UDP
connections exclusively for transport and one TCP control connection. QuickTime clients use a
UDP port, which is manually configurable. The QuickTime files have the extension “.mov”.
Alteon can also support other RTSP-compliant applications such as Microsoft Windows Media
Server 9.
RTSP Port Configuration
You can also configure RTSP to use a port other than the default of 554.
To configure an RTSP port
1. Select a non-standard port to use for RTSP.
2. Configure RTSP load balancing on the selected port.
Configuring RTSP Load Balancing
In the example configuration illustrated in
Figure 44 - Load Balancing RTSP Servers, page 293
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Alteon load balances RTSP traffic between two media server farms. One group of media servers
consist of QuickTime servers and the other group of servers consist of RealNetworks servers. Each
group has its own virtual server IP address. For example, three Real Networks servers host media
files for GlobalNews. Similarly, another three QuickTime servers host media files for GlobalNews.
The content is duplicated among the servers in each group. Depending on the client request type,
Alteon is configured to load balance in the following way:
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Retrieving files from the Real Networks server group—RTSP://www.GlobalNews.com/
*.ram, RTSP://www.GlobalNews.com/*.rm, and RTSP://www.GlobalNews.com/*.smil are load
balanced among the Real Networks media servers using virtual IP address 30.30.30.100.
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Retrieving files from the QuickTime server group—RTSP://www.GlobalNews.com/*.mov is
load balanced among the Quick Time media servers using virtual IP address 40.40.40.100.
>> Main# /cfg/slb/virt 1/service 808
>> Main# /cfg/slb/virt 1/service 808/rtsp
>> Main# /cfg/slb/virt 1/service 808/rtsp/rtspslb hash
Note: The rtspslb options are: hash, pattern, l4hash, and none.
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