Hi guys, Just scanned through the thread quickly so not sure if this makes any sense but what about F5 source IP stickiness?
Cheers, Igor On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com>wrote: > Currently, the load balancer don't provide the user > stickyness/persistence for 'x' amount of time. At this point only > option I see is that of creating a custom solution. It looks like > there is no good solution. > > Problem here is User can be directed to any site by load balancer in > active active scenario where load is being balanced as 1:1 ratio. > > Cookie was a good option but doesn;t work for non-browser client where > browser connection to server A and then server A then make Http > request. So in essence it's the ip of server A that is making the > request and there is no way to use cookies in such scenarios. > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Ben Timby <bti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks! We are using F5 GTM as global load balancer with LTM. So > >> global load balancing is not a problem. Problem is user stickyness > >> that need to persist beyond individual session. > >> > >> I forgot to mention that the problem is that these connections come > >> from the servers using http rather than browser and that's why cookies > >> here will probably not work. > > > > Then you will have to review your load balancer docs and see what > > options are available and go from there. A common load balancing > > method is SOURCE, where the source of the request is hashed to > > determine the backend server to direct the request to. This would > > ensure the same source always hits the same backend (as long as it is > > available). The downside to this method is that upstream proxies hide > > the client's IP address and undermine the load balancing effectiveness > > of this method. However, you know the user (or group of users) will be > > sticky. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
