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Re: [lvs-users] Is ldirectord the right choice for https through and thr

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Is ldirectord the right choice for https through and through
From: Malcolm Turnbull <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 21:15:59 +0000
Jacob,

I would have thought it would be happy with all of those requirements
as its pretty application agnostic.
I'd recommend one-arm Direct Routing mode but NAT mode would also be
transparent.



On 6 November 2013 21:09, Jacob Gibson <jacob.gibblers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was happily using HAProxy, until I received word that we need to also
> encrypt traffic to the web servers.  So, internet --https--> load balancer
> --https--> web servers.  Would ldirectord be a more appropriate choice?  We
> don't need any Layer 7 rules.
>
> We do need the following:
>
> 1) HTTPS all the way through
> 2) Web servers need to see the IP of the user
> 3) Users need sticky sessions to a web server (where the sticky assignment
> counter gets refreshed on each user request)
> 4) HTTPS Keep-Alive support
> 6) Mobile and older browser support (I say this because I keep reading this
> about SNI, but I don't know if that applies to us)
>
> I believe ldirectord can do #1 and #2, but don't know about #3-#6.
>
> Thanks
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