Sticky clients and varnish

[Martin Boer]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <alpine.DEB.1.10.1005061107350.4330 at andreas-haase-linux.evolver.de>,
>  Andreas Haase - evolver group writes:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to use a director with sticky client configured. But all 
>> documentation I found only mentions random and round-robin as possible 
>> options. Is there any recent docu for this feature?
>>     
>
> We're working on the docs, but if you make a "client" director
> (syntax otherwise like the "random" director) it will distribute
> based on the client's IP#.
>
> This does not (yet) take X-Forwarded-For headers into account.
>
>   
Just out of curiosity, wouldn't that give very weird results when 
several people use the same outbound IP-address ?
I would assume the purpose of stickyness is to give returning browsers a 
headstart in something.
But I could be wrong on both accounts. :)