Abstract: An example method of file transfer between a client and a server includes: initiating, by the client, a front-end control connection between the client and a horizontally scaled proxy service; creating, by a first proxy instance of a plurality of proxy instances of the horizontally scaled proxy service, a back-end control connection between the first proxy instance and the server; returning, to the client from the first proxy instance, a unique client parameter associated with the front-end connection as a destination port for a front-end data connection; initiating, by the client, the front-end data connection between the client and the horizontally scaled proxy service, the front-end data connection using the destination port as returned by the first proxy instance; and creating, by the first proxy instance, a back-end data connection between the first proxy instance and the server.

Abstract: A method and system for localizing and resolving a fault in a cluster environment. The cluster (100) is configured with at least one multi-homed node (110), and at least one gateway (140) for each network interface (112, 114). Heartbeat messages are sent between peer nodes and the gateway in predefined periodic intervals (202). In the event of loss of a heartbeat message (204) by any node or gateway, an ICMP echo is issued to each node and gateway in the cluster for each network interface (206). If neither a node loss not a network loss is validated in response to the ICMP echo, an application level ping is issued (224) to determine if the fault associated with the absence of the heartbeat message is a transient error condition (228) or an application software fault (230).