Re: Sessions, Constructors, and Destructors - Oh my!

Or you can save the the session in the database [ works good for me ] Sharing the cookie is easy when you have multiple boxes on the same tld [ or FQDN ] Evert Dan Trainor wrote:

Nathan Tobik wrote:

I've never looked into some of the open-source load balancing solutions, but I know they exist are are out there. The F5's I mentioned are probably around $20k each, and you need two obviously, so if you're on a limited budget those are not the solution for you. I'd google for open source load balancer. I know OpenBSD has some failover capacity through something called CARP, but I'm not sure how that would work with your solution. Nate Tobik (412)661-5700 x206 VigilantMinds ..... Thanks for the reply, Nathan - Are there any such interfaces that are software-based? I think that Jasper's suggestion would be the most feasable, but I'd still like to know my options. In my mind, hardware immediately equates to $$$, whereas software immediately does not. Thanks -dant

Nathan - Sure, I know of some load balancing software, but I do not know of any that support sticky sessions out of the box. BTW, how are these sessions passed? Is this a client-server approach, where the LB accepts the session data and uses a proxy to forward them to the load balanced machine, or does the load balancer do it's thing at perhaps Layer 2, and completely forwards the connection to the LB'd server? Thanks! -dant