Running behind a load balancer?

[pgentoo]

Has noone done this before?

I'm assuming in a setup like this you either need to handle SSL on your LB, or on each of your webservers.

If you did it on the LB, then the communicaiton between the LB and Web would be cleartext. If you did it on the web boxes, each web box would need to have the ssl certs configured.

Either way though, wouldn't we need to generate custom apache vhost files to listen on that web boxes IP?

It seems like we'd have to modify ispcp to build vhosts for all internal IP's used by the Web boxes, as well as the appropriate static ip's that are routed through the LB's...

It seems like it would be nice to only have the statics installed on the LB, and just have one private IP on each Web box. Is that what others have done?