Posted by Dan Trainor on 08/30/05 00:09

Nathan Tobik wrote:
> Does your load balancer support sticky sessions? What this means is a
> client will make a request and the request will be sent through a load
> balancer. That LB will remember the client and always point the
> client's requests to the same webserver. This way you don't have to
> write your own session handler like someone else suggested. I know the
> F5 load balancers are able to support sticky sessions, I don't know if
> what you're using is able, but it might be worth an hour or two to look
> into it.
>
> Nate Tobik
> (412)661-5700 x206
> VigilantMinds
>
> <snip?
>
> Also - how would one go about handling sessions behind a load-balancing
> configuration? The best I've thought of is to use some sort of load
> balancer which also has an NFS share. Sessions are created with this
> load balancer, and Apache or whatever proxy's the connection to the
> machines behind the load balancer. The machines behind the load
> balancer map the NFS share from the load balancer, and are able to
> interact with the session. I'm very curious as to how session tracking
> is done through multiple machines, as well.
>
> </snip>
>

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.

In my mind, hardware immediately equates to $$$, whereas software
immediately does not.

Thanks
-dant

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