The rest server is listening at 192.168.120.194:30880 using resteasy-netty, and HAProxy+keepalived(LVS) will check status of this port, it will connect this port and send empty data packet, and disconnect it.

So when netty read from upstream, catch exception like this :

java.io.IOException: Connection reset by peer
at sun.nio.ch.FileDispatcher.read0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketDispatcher.read(SocketDispatcher.java:21)
at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.readIntoNativeBuffer(IOUtil.java:202)
at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.read(IOUtil.java:169)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.read(SocketChannelImpl.java:243)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.read(NioWorker.java:321)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.processSelectedKeys(NioWorker.java:280)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.run(NioWorker.java:200)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)