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From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net>
To: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>
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Subject: Re: Load balancing for web servers
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Baldur Gislason (baldur) writes:
> I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to
> load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat (slow java stuff).
> Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a certain server and keep that
> mapping throughout the entire session. I'd also like to have some means of detecting
> a server that goes down and yank it from the load balancing pool. I do understand I
> may have to write some code on that side.

	pf and sticky rdr.

	Use a shell script that pings the hosts on the backend, to insert/remove
	them from a persistent table.