Using the http session based on the client_ip may not work if the client
"hides" behind a firewall with network address translation. Is there any
solution that allows for proper load balancing and maintains the sessions
across servers (same would apply to failover solutions, I guess).

At 11:13 AM 2/20/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i never worked with load balancing systems, so i dont know if they provide a
>session tracking across
>servers.
>
>but to work around the problem you could implement your own session management
>based on the ip of
>the client, which will be the same on every server.
>
>maintaining a list of clients by using ejb-session beans to handle timeouts.
>
>we are using a similar approach for managing sessions ( but we still use the
>HttpSession as the basic element ),
>keeping the main session information in ejbs.
>
>Regards,
>Matthias Kümpel
>
>
>
>Vincent Stoessel wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > does any one know if it is possible to maintain/implement  a session
> > across multiple servers? we have a load balancing solution in place
> > and I want to maintain the user session no matter what server they land
> > on. Thanks in advance.
> >
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