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Re: Using SSL for session persistance

To: Fredrik Öhrström <foh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Using SSL for session persistance
Cc: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 03:54:53 -0700
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:47:15AM +0200, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> 
> I am developing an interactive site where LVS would be of great use.
> The site is interactive and caches the users state on each server.
> Because of that I would like to have persistant sessions. Port based
> session persistance does not always work if the user is behind a
> masquearading firewall for example.
> 
> Is it possible to use the SSL session id to know which server a request
> should go to? I guess that maybe one needs to modify the
> webservers to generate unique SSL session ids inside the server group.

IPVS doesn't inspect the packet at the https/SSL level, only at the
IP level. Persistent sessions are implemented by consistently
connecting a client, identified by their IP address (or IP address 
anded with a netmask) to the same back-end server. 


-- 
Horms


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