RE: Load balancing SSL sessions

2005-02-23 Thread James Richardson
> > On Feb 22, 2005, at 10:24 PM, Kelly Vista wrote: > > > >> Hi - > >> > >> We are looking to deploy our app, running on Tomcat 5, soon and are > >> exploring load balancing options. We are looking at H/W and S/W > >> solutions, and I was wondering if anyone had any past > >> experience/advice th

Re: Load balancing SSL sessions

2005-02-23 Thread andrew
Hi Kelly, To do a software solution you could use the following method. www.mysite.com - Both servers can answer this request, (for example round robin dns) or some form of hsrp (im sure there is a patch for linux to do this)... and based upon load and a simple script (perl, java, etc) they the

Re: Load balancing SSL sessions

2005-02-23 Thread Kelly Vista
definitely not supported. Again, pls correct me if I'm wrong. From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Load balancing SSL sessions Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:01:10 -0600 you can also use DNS round

Re: Load balancing SSL sessions

2005-02-23 Thread Kelly Vista
may be getting directed to a server that is not available. Someone pls correct me if I'm wrong about that. From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Load balancing SSL sessions Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 1

Re: Load balancing SSL sessions

2005-02-22 Thread Kelly Vista
solution. I know the S/W solution will be less reliable (not solid state), but I'm looking to hear from folks who have done SSL session affinity with a S/W only approach. Thanks again, From: Andrew Miehs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" To: "Tomcat Us

Re: Load balancing SSL sessions

2005-02-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
Problem with round robin dns is that you can not guarantee that the web browser/ client will not make a second request to the dns server during the session - although very very unlikely. Andrew On Feb 22, 2005, at 11:01 PM, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote: you can also use DNS round robin, www.mys

Re: Load balancing SSL sessions

2005-02-22 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
you can also use DNS round robin, www.mysite.com resolves to two or more IP addresses. Filip Andrew Miehs wrote: We use F5 BigIPs, but they are probably overkill for your application - The cisco probably will be as well. A 'Cheap' software solution might be to work with redirects, and 2 separate

Re: Load balancing SSL sessions

2005-02-22 Thread Andrew Miehs
We use F5 BigIPs, but they are probably overkill for your application - The cisco probably will be as well. A 'Cheap' software solution might be to work with redirects, and 2 separate IP addresses. ie: ssl1.mysite.com and ssl2.mysite.com - You will need 2 ssl keys though for this to work. Does

Load balancing SSL sessions

2005-02-22 Thread Kelly Vista
Hi - We are looking to deploy our app, running on Tomcat 5, soon and are exploring load balancing options. We are looking at H/W and S/W solutions, and I was wondering if anyone had any past experience/advice they would like to share. Our deployment is as pretty run-of-the-mill as it gets: 2 m