> > When we first started up they bought a hardware load balancer even > > though I told them not as we didn't have any traffic yet and may never. > > It cost $15k. Two years later when I went to use it, I see that for > > another $5k they could have bought the better model that used cookies to > > keep sessions on a single machine. So, now I'm stuck trying to make use > > of a load balancer that doesn't do cookies :( > > a) Check to see if you can pay the $5k extra now and upgrade your > hardware. In most cases, session affinity is just a software > upgrade.
I asked 'them' to check into that, it's an Intel NetStructure 7140. I was told that Intel is in the process of selling that division off and nobody seemed to know what could be done. Sounds silly but I didn't follow up on it. > b) Check out Eddie <http://eddie.sourceforge.net>, which has a > load-balancing module that, as far as I can tell, does support > session affinity: > > http://eddie.sourceforge.net/iglb.html > http://eddie.sourceforge.net/faq.html#WhatisLB This looks really interesting. I might just install this and see if I can use it! > c) search freshmeat.net for "load balancer". There are some hits > there, but I'm not familiar with any of them to the degree that I > can tell you whether or not they support session affinity. I don't think I need a hardware load balancer if I can run Eddie on an existing machine. Thanks for the info, looks like I'll keep my paper weighted down with our existing HLB and try Eddie out :) Jeff _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
