On 2/2/07, Daniel Watts <d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Alexandros Vellis wrote: > > Thank you for this - we've just found out that haproxy can set a cookie > on the client side that tells the load balancer which server to connect > to. HAproxy is clever enough to know that if it tries to connect to the > same server and fails, it ignore the cookie and connect to another server. > > A hah. Sounds nice. > > "pound" has a similar feature, and it can actually maintain the session > mapping itself without any additional cookie on the client. > > Yep, so does HAproxy but what happens if the client connects to the OTHER > load balancer during the same session? Either the client needs to have some > state information (a cookie) or the two servers need to share some state > information. haproxy doesn't have the ability to send such information > between instances so we had to go for client side state tracking. Does Pound > have this facility? Last I set up a system like this (using Ultra Monkey), we just set connection persistence and away we go. This has already been suggested, I know, but I will 2nd the suggestion. It works like a charm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
