Citrix Farm Load Balancing

[smarksfrcb]

Hello,

I am having an issue with load balancing across my server farm when I have users accessing from the internet. To give a brief explanation of my setup (ficticious ips and machine names given)

Machine Name IP
ctxserver01 10.1.1.2
ctxserver02 10.1.1.3

External users are using url mycitrixfarm.mycitrixfarm.com which translates via dns to 111.111.111.111

My firewall has a static nat translation of 111.111.111.111 to 10.1.1.2.

My users access the url and get the published app via the site and lauch the launch.ica file. My load balancing across the two servers is by default by user session. My users are always hitting ctxserver01. When I have users hit this url from within my LAN load balancing works fine.

One thing I did to troubleshoot this was save the lauch.ica file to an external user's pc and looked at the server it is going to hit and it shows ctxserver02, then when I lauch it I see the user hits ctxserver01.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You
Shane

 

[scanjam]

When users connect to 111.111.111.111 what method do they utilise??

Do you see the alternative address in the ICA FIle? ie citrix02 as 111.111.111.111?

It may be as easy as adding another static NAT, alt address for the second server, then config web interface to deliver both server addreses not just the citrix02... if the client cant talk to the citrix01 serve ron an outside IP address, it will never work...)

Or you could just setup the free secure gateway, its more secure, much easier to administer and much less complicated..