If both servers are listening om port 80 & 443 then you can use a layer 3 rule and SRC Ip based stickiness to achieve this

service server1

ip address 192.168.100.2

active

service server2

ip address 192.168.100.3

active

content WWW

vip address 192.168.1.6

add service server1

add service server2

balance leastconn

advanced−balance sticky−srcip

active

The other option you have is to (If you want to use layer4 + rules) Configure the servers in both port 80 rule and port 443 rule in the same order and use "balance srcip". The balance srcip should hash the

client requests to the same server. In a steady state this works fine but if the servers go up/down then the hash is recalculated which may cause clients to end up at a different server...

Hope it helps

Syed Iftekhar Ahmed

Tks a lot Syed, could you please send me a web link with an example like that or something else?

yks in advance.

Syed,

Pardon my ignorance, but does this mean the CSS is now acting just as a L3 load balancer? So irrespective of which ports come in they get sent to server 1 or server 2 depending on which has the least connections?

I ask as I have a situation where the client originally specified WWW traffic should go to one of the four AV Webwashers. However, they have now asked that other traffic besides WWW traffic is incorporated and load balanced and I am unsure how to do this on the CSS. (Its not a product I have used much and most examples seem to indicate services must be used)

Thanks for any help.

Kind regards

Phil