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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:51:14AM +0100, Torvald Baade Bringsvor wrote:
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> Hello.
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> We have a setup with two reverse proxies, two frontends and two backend
> application servers. Usually we just use LVS to switch between the proxies,
> and then establish a direct mapping from each of the reverse proxies onto an
> application server. But now I am wondering if it is possible to use LVS to
> switch between the two frontends and the two backends as well, in other
> words to cluster the frontends and backends. Regular persistence doesn't
> work here, because (as far as the backends are concerned) all the traffic
> comes from just two addresses. It would be really nice to be able to inspect
> the session ID (which is contained in the http header of the requests) and
> route the request based on that. But is it possible? Has anybody done this?
Unfortunately LVS does not have access to the session header
so this information cannot be used for load balancing.
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Horms
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