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Re: LVS-DR and https

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Subject: Re: LVS-DR and https
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:17:18 +0900
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:31:04AM +0200, Nicolas Niclausse wrote:
> >>>>> "horms" == horms  <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> écrivait:
> 
>  horms> The other reason that persistance is a good idea relates to
>  horms> session resumption. This allows subsequent connections to be set
>  horms> up much faster if an end-user connects to the same real
>  horms> server. Some Layer 4 Switching implementations allow persistance
>  horms> bassed on session Id for this reason. LVS doesn't do this. And
>  horms> it is a bit hard to put into the current code (when I say a bit,
>  horms> I mean more or less impossible).
> 
> Does ktcpvs can (or will) do this ?

I don't believe so, but I will stand corrected.

> There is an alternative to persistance: you can share the session IDs on
> the real servers side with distcache http://distcache.sourceforge.net/
> 
> (I haven't try it myself)

Nice, sounds very interesting.

>  horms> Note that using different real-servers will not cause
>  horms> connections that try to use Session IDs to fail. They will just
>  horms> use the slower version of the handshake.
> 
> Indeed, it will be MUCH slower. I've made a few benchmarks, and https
> with renegociation is ~20 times slower.

That wouldn't supprise me if a client is making many small connections.

-- 
Horms
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