Timeout problem behind load balancer

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Simon Morley <simon at polkaspots.com> wrote:
> Agreed. So it would seem there is an issue getting the traffic back out
> again as suspected.
>
> We don't have a million users so I shan't bother looking at the F5s. Will
> hassle Google again.
>
> I suspect their health check is randomly removing the machines from the load
> balancers.

I'm curious what they use for udp health check. Do they even have any?
Is it something that aware of radius packets? Or is it just basic ping
check?

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Fajar


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> Thanks
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> On 25 July 2014 13:24, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
>>
>> Simon Morley wrote:
>> > I've discussed with Google and they're saying the connection isn't
>> > closed and the load-balancer therefore puts the instance in 'unhealthy'
>> > mode.
>>
>>   UDP sessions aren't "closed".  The google support guys don't seem to
>> be competent.
>>
>> > Has anyone tried this successfully - either on GCE or other UDP load
>> > balancer? Does anyone have any thoughts about how I could solve?
>>
>>   F5 load balancers seem to work.  But they are useful only when you're
>> at Telco scale.  i.e. 1M+ users.  For pretty much everyone else, it
>> doesn't matter.
>>
>>   Alan DeKok.
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