Client IP Adress feature in MPS 4.0 on W2k3, how does it work?

[chjinmind]

Hi all!

Regarding the Client IP Adress feature described in the Adv. Concepts guide for MPS4.

Scenario is that the farm consisting of app. 5-10 servers hosting a lightwheight application app. for 100-200 concurrent users.
The application needs a separate IP-adress for connecting to a database. (Exact calls are unknown at the moment)

I now wonder how the Client IP Adress feature works. According to the adv. Concepts guide you add the registry entries to enable the client address feature and add the binaries to hook the Client IP Address feature.
(No further VIP-config)

So, to the questions;

-Is that all that it takes for masking the calls as the client IP to the application server?

- Does this feature, "Client IP Address feature" not demand som previous VIP enabling on the server?

Thanx for any input!

//Chris

 

[aco636]

Hi there

Is it definately IP addresses the the app needs and not machine names? If so the is a hack that swaps the machine name to the user name.

Else in Win2003 they have now exposed the client Ip to WMI but sorry to say I have no experience of a hack to swap machine IP to Client IP.

Regards ACO

 

[chjinmind]

ClientIP was not the solution for this software.
The software demanded a separate IP-address for the data communication even after identifying itself.
VirtualIP worked beautiful though.

/C