Specifications

Chapter 5: Configuring Equalizer Operation
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not be translated by Equalizer. Enabling this option tells Equalizer to drop any RST packets
from servers that do not currently have a Layer 4 connection record that matches the RST
packet; with this option disabled (the default) Equalizer will forward all RST packets.
• abort server causes Equalizer to terminate server connections without waiting for the server
to quiesce.
• don’t transfer disables the transfer of the Equalizer configuration between failover peers
(siblings) when a failure occurs. This is generally used only when using two different
Equalizer models/configurations as failover peers (siblings). See “Using Failover with
Different Equalizer Models or Versions” on page 51.
• allow extended chars is described under “Configuring Support for Extended Characters” on
page 55.
• RST on server failure applies to L4 clusters only and enables the sending of TCP RST
(reset) packets to clients on established connections when the server on the other end of the
connection goes down. By default, Equalizer does not send RST packets to clients. This is
useful when used with applications like Network File System (NFS) that require a TCP RST
to close a connection.
The modify system parameters screen displays the following flags that control access to the
Administrative Interface. All are enabled by default.
Figure24 Themodifysystemparametersscreen(guiaccessflags)
• external enables access via the currently configured external interface IP address.
• internal enables access via the currently configured internal interface IP address.
• failover enables access via the currently configured failover IP address.
• http enables access via the http:// protocol.
• https enables access via the https:// protocol.
You can check the currently configured IP addresses on the View > Equalizer status screen.
If you should attempt to disable access for the IP address or protocol that you are using for the
current browser session, an error is displayed. If you should disable all access to the Administrative
Interface (e.g., by manually editing the eq.conf file), see “Restoring Access to the Administrative
Interface” on page 191 for how to re-enable access.