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Re: [lvs-users] LVS for http vhost

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] LVS for http vhost
From: Malcolm Turnbull <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 07:21:28 +0000
With LVS you can only load balance based on layer 4 information such
as source IP/destination IP etc.
If you need a layer 7 load balancer try HAProxy.


On 19 January 2015 at 07:00, John D. <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Do you know how to make a Layer 4 load balancer (for example, LVS),
> support the L7 virtual hosts (for instance, the http host header)?
>
> I ask this b/c our application are the socket servers (game servers).
> They have a special socket port, it can be bound on LVS server. Behind
> LVS there are many servers for different partitions. So we want to make
> LVS balance the requests to the different partition based on some tags,
> for example, the http header.
>
> Thanks.
>
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Malcolm Turnbull.

Loadbalancer.org Ltd.
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