Load balancing streaming (rtsp) servers

[Alejandro]

Nicholas,

Any luck with this? works?

I need the same feature.... you will need to use this for balancing Wowza
Media Server right?

Thanks,
Alejandro

2010/12/29 Nicholas Tang <nicholas.tang at livestream.com>

> Question: is it possible to load balance rtsp servers using Varnish?
>  They'd need to "stick" based on client ip.  My thought was to try something
> like this:
>
>
> backend mobile-1 {
>   .host = "";
>   include "/usr/local/varnish/etc/varnish/backend.vcl";
> }
>
> backend mobile-2 {
>   .host = "";
>   include "/usr/local/varnish/etc/varnish/backend.vcl";
> }
>
> backend mobile-3 {
>   .host = "";
>   include "/usr/local/varnish/etc/varnish/backend.vcl";
> }
>
> backend mobile-4 {
>   .host = "";
>   include "/usr/local/varnish/etc/varnish/backend.vcl";
> }
>
> director mobile_rtsp client {
>   { .backend = mobile-1; }
>   { .backend = mobile-2; }
>   { .backend = mobile-3; }
>   { .backend = mobile-4; }
> }
>
> sub vcl_recv {
>   set req.backend = mobile_rtsp;
>   set client.identity = client.ip;
>   return (pipe);
> }
>
> sub vcl_pipe {
>   # close backend connection after each pipe - this prevents requests from
> stepping on each other
>   # http://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExamplePipe
>   set bereq.http.connection = "close";
> }
>
>
> Thanks,
> Nicholas
>
>
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