Nathan Tobik wrote: > Does your load balancer support sticky sessions? What this means is a > client will make a request and the request will be sent through a load > balancer. That LB will remember the client and always point the > client's requests to the same webserver. This way you don't have to > write your own session handler like someone else suggested. I know the > F5 load balancers are able to support sticky sessions, I don't know if > what you're using is able, but it might be worth an hour or two to look > into it. > > Nate Tobik > (412)661-5700 x206 > VigilantMinds > > <snip? > > Also - how would one go about handling sessions behind a load-balancing > configuration? The best I've thought of is to use some sort of load > balancer which also has an NFS share. Sessions are created with this > load balancer, and Apache or whatever proxy's the connection to the > machines behind the load balancer. The machines behind the load > balancer map the NFS share from the load balancer, and are able to > interact with the session. I'm very curious as to how session tracking > is done through multiple machines, as well. > > </snip> >
Thanks for the reply, Nathan - Are there any such interfaces that are software-based? I think that Jasper's suggestion would be the most feasable, but I'd still like to know my options. In my mind, hardware immediately equates to $$$, whereas software immediately does not. Thanks -dant -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
