Outbound load balancing, session cookies and sticky outbound flows

[emptysands]

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

[jimp]

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

[mastermindpro]

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

[jimp]

Last I heard they worked on 2.0 but did not work on 1.2.x

[emptysands]

@jimp:

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

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

[krisken]

@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?

[emptysands]

@krisken:
Do the sticky connections work at you?

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

[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 :)

[emptysands]

@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.

[krisken]

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 :)