Load balancing for web servers

[Phil Regnauld]

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.