hey everybody
I'll first sketch our setup to make a little bit of sense:
We have a 2-node virtual cluster (windows 2008R2) that is used to host some services.
I'm just gonna pick some random ip's:
clusterhost1 has the ip 10.255.59.2
clusterhost2 has the ip 10.255.59.3
The cluster got the ip 10.255.59.1 assigned to it
So far so good.
Now we have grouped the services into 1 group (Using the option "create empty service or application") and created an accesspoint for it with the ip 10.255.59.4
Now; i have received a question of one of the programmers of which ip to use for one of his processes.
He needs to know which ip is used when receiving or sending.
I have put a little testproces on the cluster that just accepts a telnet session on a certain port.
I've tried both ip's of the accesspoint and the ip of the cluster itself and both seem to work. Now I think it's safe to presume that using the ip of the accesspoint is better for sending to
now; let's say that my service will send some data back to an application; which ip will it use? I would think the ip of the accesspoint but i'm not sure.
Could somebody help me with the answer please?
Thanks in advance