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jmack
Wed 21st Jun '06, 11:52pm
I just finished testing out a round robin setup using IPnat on our firewall with a rule similar to this - very handy, and no DNS changes:

rdr fxp0 x.x.x.x/32 port 80 -> 172.16.1.110 port 80 tcp round-robin
rdr fxp0 x.x.x.x/32 port 80 -> 172.16.1.111 port 80 tcp round-robin

However, I noticed one strange side effect in VB misreporting the online users - once I started surfing on the cluster setup (which is not public btw) the number got really weird - reporting approximately double the number of online users (members and guests).

Since session data is stored in the database, I can't figure this one out. Once I stopped surfing the cluster machines, the numbers returned to normal, with the exception of the 'most users online'.

Has anyone run into this before?

eva2000
Fri 23rd Jun '06, 7:56am
unfortunately no experience with such a setup maybe ask at webhostingtalk.com or http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=172

Scott MacVicar
Fri 23rd Jun '06, 8:05am
It's probably down to the IP address being changed.

If you look at the who's online while it happens what are most of the addresses?