31 Jul
So if you want to limit one or more of your real servers in a virtual server farm to a certain amount of connections you can do it with the “maxconns” command.
Login to the CSM go into config mode, go into the serverfarm you want to restrict then go into the real server. Type in […]
Posted in Cisco, Networking, load balancing by: chris.super
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07 Mar
I have been working on setting up a test for one over our load balanced webservers to be placed behind the new firewall we have installed. With putting this server behind the firewall I am also switching that webserver to use one-armed mode for load balancing.
Basically the main thing with one-armed CSM configs is that […]
Posted in Cisco, Firewalls, General, Networking, Systems, load balancing by: chris.super
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14 Aug
I have been working lately on setting up a new design on our CSM. It currently is running in bridged mode and all of our servers need routes on them to function correctly. The default gateway on the servers in the CSM and any internal traffic you want to work needs a route on the […]
Posted in Cisco, Networking, load balancing by: chris.super
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21 Jul
Here is a nice little config extra for your Cisco Content Switch Module or CSM. Basically what this will give you is whatever partial URL you put in the match statement, when sent to your vserver will be redirected to whatever URL you put in the webhost relocation statement. In the match statement do not […]
Posted in Cisco, Networking, load balancing by: chris.super
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19 Jul
Sometimes it is quite hard to find info on the Cisco CSM Load balancer module so as I find info I try to post here for others.
Latest thing I was looking into was persistent rebalance. I new it was a good thing and it is enable by default but I am not a default kind […]
Posted in Cisco, load balancing by: chris.super
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10 Jul
I am going to be blogging about Load balancing in the quite a bit in the near future. I will try to go in depth on different subjects as time allows but to start will a couple of links to some devices you might want to look into. If you want to load balance network […]
Posted in load balancing by: chris.super
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17 Jun
I am going to post my thoughts on the best algorithm for load balancing web servers and would like comments on others opinions on this. I am currently using a Cisco CSM to load balance numerous websites and servers. There are three main ways for the CSM to determine where to put new sessions. They […]
Posted in Networking by: chris.super
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