On 23/11/2011 06:37, Faseela K wrote: > > Hi, > > I have applications running on two tomcat servers which are in load balancing > mode.
OK so far. > If I try to access the application from the first server,and if the request > is forwarded to the second server, > the request.getRemoteAddr() on the second server still returns > "127.0.0.1"(instead of first server IP). So server #1 connects to the load balancer? On which server is the load balancer? > If the client is outside the two loadbancing servers, I am getting the proper > client IP address. Sounds like the application is working properly then. > I am using tomcat 5.5.31 and mod_jk module for load balancing,and my platform > is solaris 10. > Is there a way to get the actual client IP,rather than localhost,if the > client is on the same box as the tomcat server,and if the request is > forwarded to the second load balancing server? If the client is on the same physical server as the Tomcat, then the correct IP address *is* 127.0.0.1. Your networking stack may well identify that it's a local operation & bypass the time-consuming roundtrip through the network device, just doing a shorter in-memory operation via the loopback address. p > > Thanks, > Faseela > > -- [key:62590808]
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