LVS has the ability to multicast-sync connection states: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/docs/sync.html , and if we used it, it would cut down on connection loss during LVS failover events (which are currently required even for e.g. pybal config changes).
- Ensure it actually works for us
- Assign multicast IPs to separate out traffic clusters (e.g. high-traffic1 vs low-traffic) and DCs
- Deploy slowly by-cluster/dc, check for: works functionally, whether there's any perf loss to the overhead, how big the multicast traffic rate is, etc.