Miscellaneous questions

[Cherife Li]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 2008-3-17 17:56, C. Handel wrote:
| On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Augustin Amann <augustin at waw.com> wrote:
|>  I'm thinking about the same idea of a reverse-proxy cache cluster
for work.
|>  I think that one way of doing that is to use HaProxy (*haproxy*.1wt.eu)
|>  which implement such hash function. You could use it in front of
|>  Varnish, with a URL based balance algorithm ... Should work ok for this
|>  job, even if this could be great to do that in varnish directly.
|
| You might be interessted in using http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
| to build the loadbalancer part. You could route the traffic using
| sticky connections to the right backend server. It is even possible
| that the LVS Servers see only the incoming traffic not the replies.
| This is an important feature if the limit of one gigbit interface is
| reached.

I'm afraid that LVS can not do URI based load balancing.
LVS is an IP-level rather than application-level LBer.
If you have different domains, that's troublesome.

| Greetings
|    Christoph
| _______________________________________________
| varnish-misc mailing list
| varnish-misc at projects.linpro.no
| http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc

- --
Rgds,
Cherife.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32)

iD8DBQFH3lLrD+6zYVqA6cMRAgpkAJ9oJwanTXF/ghuwLQTmPUraMjx69ACfRmm9
giOaPzp095FpexsVGTq+Rco=
=Vp1q
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----