METHOD AND APPLIANCE FOR DISTRIBUTING DATA PACKETS SENT BY A COMPUTER TO A CLUSTER SYSTEM

摘要

A method and an appliance for distributing a data packet sent by a computer via connection line to a cluster system is implemented. The data packet comprises a UDP packet and an identification of the computer the data packet was sent from. After the data packet is received by an at least one second node the identification within said data packet is extracted. It will be then checked, whether a data packet comprising the same identification has been received and forwarded to one of at least two first nodes. If that check is positive the data packet is forwarded to one of those at least two first nodes. Otherwise a new node is selected and the data packet is forwarded to that selected node for data processing. This allows high availability against failovers and also load balancing for UDP connections.