Graeme Fowler wrote: > Hi Frank > > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:59 -0400, Frank Pani wrote: > >> I have searched the archives to determine if LVS has the capability to load >> balance based on session cookies embedded in HTTP packets. That is, if a >> packets flows through the load balancer, it can redirect the packet to the >> proper realserver (or backend server) based on a session cookie. >> > > No. > > LVS is a layer 4 system, not layer 7 - it has no application awareness > whatsoever. > > What you need is something like Pound - http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ or > HAProxy - http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ > > Graeme > > > It can't do it on session cookies but it can do it on client ip using persistence:
http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.persistent_connection.html -Gerry _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [email protected] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
