Strange because a quick search gives me this http://devcentral-sea.f5.com/Community/GroupDetails/tabid/1082223/asg/50/aft/26947/showtab/groupforums/Default.aspx
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com>wrote: > Are you referrring to GTM or LTM. I have looked into it and even > talked to F5 but currently they don't have this functionality for > Prod. > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Igor Cicimov <icici...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Just scanned through the thread quickly so not sure if this makes any > sense > > but what about F5 source IP stickiness? > > > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Currently, the load balancer don't provide the user > >> stickyness/persistence for 'x' amount of time. At this point only > >> option I see is that of creating a custom solution. It looks like > >> there is no good solution. > >> > >> Problem here is User can be directed to any site by load balancer in > >> active active scenario where load is being balanced as 1:1 ratio. > >> > >> Cookie was a good option but doesn;t work for non-browser client where > >> browser connection to server A and then server A then make Http > >> request. So in essence it's the ip of server A that is making the > >> request and there is no way to use cookies in such scenarios. > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Ben Timby <bti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Mohit Anchlia < > mohitanch...@gmail.com> > >> > wrote: > >> >> Thanks! We are using F5 GTM as global load balancer with LTM. So > >> >> global load balancing is not a problem. Problem is user stickyness > >> >> that need to persist beyond individual session. > >> >> > >> >> I forgot to mention that the problem is that these connections come > >> >> from the servers using http rather than browser and that's why > cookies > >> >> here will probably not work. > >> > > >> > Then you will have to review your load balancer docs and see what > >> > options are available and go from there. A common load balancing > >> > method is SOURCE, where the source of the request is hashed to > >> > determine the backend server to direct the request to. This would > >> > ensure the same source always hits the same backend (as long as it is > >> > available). The downside to this method is that upstream proxies hide > >> > the client's IP address and undermine the load balancing effectiveness > >> > of this method. However, you know the user (or group of users) will be > >> > sticky. > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > Project. > >> See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > >> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
