Multiple websites with multiple ip addresses

[Doug Curtis]

Quoting Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net>:

> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Doug Curtis wrote:
>
>> So I guess what it boils down to is while the connections per ip  
>> address are evenly distributed, the connections per server aren't.
>
> hmm. This is a feature, not a bug :-)

heh. Cool.  I'm glad that I was interpreting this correctly.

>
> In LVS each VIP is scheduled separately. The imbalance presumably is  
> usually a persistence problem (which you can't do a whole lot  
> about), ie some clients stay connected for a long time and some  
> don't. I would expect over a large enough number of clients (100?  
> 1000?) the connections would even out.
>
> One way of handling it would be to schedule all connections under  
> one fwmark, then you only have one service.
>

Hmmm. I will have to look into that further.  After some initial  
reading, that is probably what I need to do.

>> I guess the other thing that may throw a wrench into things is that  
>> I am using keepalive in apache.
>
> use the standard value. for https you don't disconnect anyhow.
>
> Joe
>

Thanks for the help,

Doug