I can shed some light on the RedHat version of LVS (piranha)... It has a
persistance option when you create a VIP... I am quite certain there are
ways to accomplish this with normal LVS.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Linton" <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 5:34 pm
Subject: Setting up a new Linux cluster
> Hi 'im setting up a Linux cluster for a Novell registration site.
> We'llprobably be using two cheap-o Linux servers to do load
> balancing +
> heartbeat. I'm curious to know, we have around 4 servers
> initially that
> we'll be putting on the back-end of this. The only problem is a
> lot of the
> technology on this is using session variables which, if the client who
> connects to the system gets bounced between the 4 servers on their
> pagerequests the session variable will get lost and the users
> session could get
> terminated.
>
> Is there a possible way to setup LVS so that when a user connects
> (based on
> their ip) it only routes that ip to a certain server, thus
> insuring the
> session variables remain intact. I assume you could set some kind
> of TTL to
> give for the IPS in the routing table. I'm just wondering what
> solutions I
> can implement.
>
> Thanks,
> Trevor F. Linton
>
> Systems Administrator/Web Developer
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>
>
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