Sticky Load Balancing with Varnish

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1271268819.5141.85.camel at app-srv-debian-amdmp2.idni>, Niklas Norber
g writes:

>Does the hash director balance differently, in the big picture, than the
>already existing random director?

The hash director selects backend based on the object hash value
(as produced by vcl_hash{}).  This allows you to distribute your
content over your backends such that they pool their resources.

The client director will send the same client to the same backend
all the time.

>The client director comes close to my intended setup but the problem
>with balancing on client ip is, as have been mentioned before, that lots
>of clients (real users behind their browsers) can share the same
>ip-adress.

Yes, I'm aware of this.

I have a patch which I hope will be in 2.1.1 where you can control
what the client director selects on, somewhat like you do with
vcl_hash{} for the hash-key.

Poul-Henning

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