Loadbalancing Webservers
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Hi,
as written in a post before I have two server running pfsense in front of three webservers. Using the loadbalancer I serve website requests to three webservers on the internal network.
My colleague now asked me about session stickyness and I had to show him a blank face as I do not know if sessions are sticky and where I could check for this. I have an old Intel NetStructure loadbalancer which will possibly be replaces by the servers running pfSense, but there I have control wether sessions will be sticky or not and if they are sticky how long will the stickyness last.
An example from the config:
Protocol port: 80
Sticky: src-ip
Sticky time out value: 90 (seconds)
Duplicate SYN time: 500000 (micro-seconds)
Maximum response time: 50 (milli-seconds)
Service priority: 1 (1 - highest to 5 - lowest)
Backup servers: disabled
Balancing strategy: Load BalancedI know, the main purpose of pfSense is the firewalling and not the loadbalancing, but do I have a chance to configure things like this in the loadbalancing part of pfSense?
regards,
Comradin -
Hiho,
any hints on how to check if balanced sessions are sticky or not?
regards,
Comradin -
any hints on how to check if balanced sessions are sticky or not?
Set it up and observe if your requests continue to hit a particular one of the backend servers.