Load balancing streaming (rtsp) servers

[Nicholas Tang]

Haven't had a chance to test it yet, and no one has responded.  And yeah,
Wowza.  :)

Nicholas
On Jan 4, 2011 7:11 PM, "Alejandro" <cdgraff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
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