Bug 3003 - Support connecting to multiple servers via one IP
Summary: Support connecting to multiple servers via one IP
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: ThinLinc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: VSM Agent (show other bugs)
Version: trunk
Hardware: PC Unknown
: P2 Normal
Target Milestone: LowPrio
Assignee: Peter Åstrand
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Reported: 2009-01-28 14:27 CET by Peter Åstrand
Modified: 2024-07-30 13:15 CEST (History)
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Description Peter Åstrand cendio 2009-01-28 14:27:11 CET
For some ASP cases, the customer might want to expose only one single external IP, but still use a thinlinc cluster with multiple agent machines. This can be done by connecting to different TCP ports, instead of different host names. One client based solution for this is bug 1580: Assuming this mechanism supports ports, you can map different agent host names to the single external IP, but different ports. 

Being a client side solution, however, this requires a preconfigured tlclient.conf. For many ASP cases, it might be better to specify this on the server side. This could be done by extending the agent_hostname mechanism to include a port. 

The interaction with the current port setting needs to be considered, though. For example, should be agent_hostname port have higher or lower priority than the client setting?
Comment 1 Karl Mikaelsson cendio 2016-10-18 15:57:58 CEST
See also: bug 3161.
Comment 3 Pierre Ossman cendio 2022-06-07 16:05:33 CEST
Also note that the client side fix (HOST_ALIASES) only works for the native client. We have no solution for how to solve this scenario when using Web Access.

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