According to the 5.0 docs, the jvmRoute description says the following: "Identifier which must be used in load balancing scenarios to enable session affinity. The indetifier, which must be unique across all Tomcat 5 servers which participate in the cluster, will be appended to the generated session identifier, therefore allowing the front end proxy to always forward a particular session to the same Tomcat 5 instance."
In the worker.properties(5.0) the worker_name correspond to the jvmRoute. we specify the worker names who participate in the loadbalancing. such as worker.loadbalancer.type=lb worker.loadbalancer.balanced_workers=server1, server2, server3, server4, server5, server6, server7, server8, server9, server10, server11, server12 worker.loadbalancer.sticky_session=1 worker.loadbalancer.local_worker_only=1 when you say "which must be unique across all Tomcat 5 servers which participate in the cluster" do you mean the all the worker names hence the jvmRoute should be unique? Currently we have: server1 through server4 is on one machine having 4 tomcat instances. server5 through server8 is on one machine having 4 tomcat instances. server9 through server12 is on one machine having 4 tomcat instances. Thanks, Rumpa Giri --------------------------------- New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big.