12-31-2003 11:46 AM
I appear to be having issues with an initial call to a rule that has a long delay, this causes additional request from the css to the entire server farm. I am looking for the layer 5 load balancing spec so i can see what the timeout values are. if the initial call is short, it sticks to a single server with a single session. i am using advanced balance arrowpoint cookie and have to have the sticky sessions.
12-31-2003 12:22 PM
Mark,
Can you paste in your current rule, as well as any other rules with the same VIP address?
When you say it has a long delay, you mean the client pauses before sending the initial GET?
You might want to lengthen the time-out of flows for port 80 with the "flow port" command so the CSS will not time them out:
CSS(config)# flow port1 80 timeout 300
That option is not available in all version of CSS code. If it is not available, we can look at other options.
-Steve
12-31-2003 12:36 PM
Thanks for the help Steve, when i refer to the long delay, i am talking about an initial http://get that passes login variables with a db lookup function that takes anywhere from 15-45 seconds to process. This seems to cause the css to perform an initial load balance by re-sending the request to all 3 servers in the farm.
content secure-81-pd26
advanced-balance arrowpoint-cookie
protocol tcp
port 81
url "/*"
vip address 10.10.8.219
add service s-01
add service s-02
add service s-03
active
12-31-2003 01:21 PM
Mark,
If the request takes 15 to 45 seconds to send, you will need the "flow port" command I referenced.
Can you send in the version of software you are running? There may be other options based on that...
-Steve
01-02-2004 10:01 AM
i tried the flow port command for ports 80,81, and 443. the symptoms still remain. we are using a sonicwall ssl device and the crazy thing is that it works fine if we bypass ssl. we are running version 6.10 Build 203 on the css.
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