[Thinstation-developer] We like network load balancing. It doesn't like us.

[Beaumont, K. <kev...@pr...>]

Short back story: Microsoft Network Load Balancing between a farm of
Microsoft Terminal Servers is a nightmare.  The way the traffic works
(virtual shared IPs) kills some routing switches.

The forward story:  Can anybody think of a way to make Thinstation pick an
IP address from a pool to rdesktop to?

Example:

Four Windows terminal servers.

IPs:

10.1.1.1
10.1.1.2
10.1.1.3
10.1.1.4

Could we make a Thinstation client automatically, randomly choose one of
these IPs?  And if it fails to connect (or correctly disconnects)
automatically try ANOTHER IP?

The why: Load balancing, without the actual Microsoft part.

I can develop this, but if anybody has an easy rough idea it'd help.

Kev


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