On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:17:17 -0500 (CDT), Nate Carlson
<natecars at real-time.com> wrote:
> Very true - this does limit what options you can use while load balancing,
> but most cases that require those options are broken in any case. (IE, the
> sites that balance based on the session cookie that gets sent, things like
> that.)

Actually no, because a smart load balancer like Zeus Load Balancer
will (attempt to) send a specific client to the same backend machine
everytime.  This is necessary anyway for SSL.  Otherwise, you would
need to negotiate the SSL session each time, or have a shared SSL
session cache.

What you can't do is send a request to different machines based on the
request URI or other info.  For example, you might send requests for
ASP pages to Windows machines running IIS, and requests for images and
anything else to UNIX machines running Zeus.

-- 
David Phillips <david at acz.org>
http://david.acz.org/

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