The best solution is to offload SSL encryption/decryption from the web server to a seperate device. Then you can load balance the web servers independent of the SSL overhead. This is shown in the final example on the page Lawrence sent along. I actually represent a company that is considering bringing a low cost hardware SSL accelarator into the US market, we're just trying to determine how much demand there might be for the product. It integrates with any load balancing tool seamlessly.
> Just a quick warning if any of your servers are going to run ssl. Load > balancing in this form cannot really be done against an ssl transaction - > something I've found from research and experience (unfortunately, the > experience came before the research) :-o > > Seriously, though, if you want to properly load balance anything that uses > w/ ssl you should handle the ssl decryption / encryption between the user > and load balancer, NOT between the load balancer and server. Here's a good > link to check out for more info. Maybe not completely appropriate for what > you're asking, but good background anyway: > > http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a//onjava/2001/09/26/load.html > > -Lawrence ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
