hi, I'm working on a issue with a big worldwide website using a CDN (Content delivery network) to serve it's content. The CDN caches make requests to the Origin site to populate themselves. The Origin website has an alteon 184 dispatching requests towards 2 set of independant clusters of webserver+application servers. Each application server issues JSESSIONID cookies to identify the sessions. The alteon currently routes according to the source ip address. The problem is that the caches are behind a load balancer as well, meaning that 2 caches with differents IP addresses can issue requests with the same JSESSIONID cookie to the origin Alteon wich will forward to one or the other cluster according to the IP source address, so breaking the sessions.
Not knowing the alteon,Would there be a way that the alteon routes according to the JSESSIONID cookie instead of the IP source adress ? would it slow down the performances if possible ?
Many thanks for any help :)