[ic] Cluster / IP question

[Bill Carr]

On Jan 21, 2008, at 9:58 AM, DB wrote:

> I'm looking into clustering for my IC stores. Once of the HA  
> software packages that I'm considering has what may be a very  
> serious drawback: all requests sent to the clustered servers lack  
> the visitor's original IP address. Instead all requests come in  
> using the IP of the box that runs the HA server.
>
> Since IC uses the visitors IP for the session ID among other things,  
> it seems like this might be a bad idea. Does anyone have thoughts or  
> suggestions?
I've been using LVS (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/) with  
Heartbeat (http://linux-ha.org/) for years to serve up Interchange web  
sites. I recommend you check it out. LVS has worked quite well for me.


Bill Carr
bill at worldwideimpact.com