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Posted by Evert | Rooftop on 10/18/83 11:25
Or you can save the the session in the database [ works good for me ]
Sharing the cookie is easy when you have multiple boxes on the same tld
[ or FQDN ]
Evert
Dan Trainor wrote:
>Nathan Tobik wrote:
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>>I've never looked into some of the open-source load balancing solutions,
>>but I know they exist are are out there. The F5's I mentioned are
>>probably around $20k each, and you need two obviously, so if you're on a
>>limited budget those are not the solution for you. I'd google for open
>>source load balancer. I know OpenBSD has some failover capacity through
>>something called CARP, but I'm not sure how that would work with your
>>solution.
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>>Nate Tobik
>>(412)661-5700 x206
>>VigilantMinds
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>>.....
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>>Thanks for the reply, Nathan -
>>
>>Are there any such interfaces that are software-based? I think that
>>Jasper's suggestion would be the most feasable, but I'd still like to
>>know my options.
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>>In my mind, hardware immediately equates to $$$, whereas software
>>immediately does not.
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>>Thanks
>>-dant
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>Nathan -
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>Sure, I know of some load balancing software, but I do not know of any
>that support sticky sessions out of the box.
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>BTW, how are these sessions passed? Is this a client-server approach,
>where the LB accepts the session data and uses a proxy to forward them
>to the load balanced machine, or does the load balancer do it's thing at
>perhaps Layer 2, and completely forwards the connection to the LB'd server?
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>Thanks!
>-dant
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