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    Outbound load balancing, session cookies and sticky outbound flows

    2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      emptysands
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      Is there a method to bind outbound flows to a give site/IP to a particular multi-wan channel?

      Otherwise web sites that track IP in sessions cookies will constant expire connections.

      Running: 2.0-BETA4  (i386) built on Mon Oct 4 00:44:29 EDT 2010

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        System > Advanced, Misc tab, check "Use sticky connections".

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          mastermindpro
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          I was told a few months ago that sticky connections didn't work yet.  Has that changed?

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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            Last I heard they worked on 2.0 but did not work on 1.2.x

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              emptysands
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              @jimp:

              System > Advanced, Misc tab, check "Use sticky connections".

              Thanks. I'm wondering if it should be on by default.

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                krisken
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                @emptysands:

                @jimp:

                System > Advanced, Misc tab, check "Use sticky connections".

                Thanks. I'm wondering if it should be on by default.

                Do the sticky connections work at you?

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                  emptysands
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                  @krisken:
                  Do the sticky connections work at you?

                  Once I found the option, outbound sticky connections did start to work.

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                    krisken
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                    @emptysands:

                    @krisken:
                    Do the sticky connections work at you?

                    Once I found the option, outbound sticky connections did start to work.

                    Here it did work if i'm fast enough with browsing.  If i don't do about 10 seconds anything on the website, it didn't work at all.  Eg typing in username/password for eg a forum was quite difficult :)

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                      emptysands
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                      @krisken:

                      @emptysands:

                      @krisken:
                      Do the sticky connections work at you?

                      Once I found the option, outbound sticky connections did start to work.

                      Here it did work if i'm fast enough with browsing.  If i don't do about 10 seconds anything on the website, it didn't work at all.  Eg typing in username/password for eg a forum was quite difficult :)

                      Sounds like it is not working or not turned on.  That is a classic example of source IP flipping causing the auth cookie for a forum to reset.

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                        krisken
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                        I've set it on, but it could be that it isn't working.
                        For a forum or a directadmin session, that's quite allright.  But not for my homebanking.  But i did the work-around (see my topic) and well…we'll see if that does the job :)

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