Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:42:03 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Joel Dinel" <dinjo@touchtunes.com> Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Basic load balancing with IPFW Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOCEKCCLAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20020322084026.A21439@sunder.touchtunes.com>
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Start here http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/07/26/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Finish up here http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joel Dinel Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:40 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Basic load balancing with IPFW I've been googling and reading man pages all morning, and I can't find out if I can do some very basic load balancing with IPFW. Basically, I have four servers with the exact same config. I want to equally (or not) distribute traffic across them. Suppose I get 200 connections, I'd want to be able to distribute them like so : Server1 : 50 connections Server2 : 50 connections Server3 : 50 connections Server4 : 50 connections Or, Server1 : 80 connections Server2 : 20 connections Server3 : 50 connections Server4 : 50 connections And so on. I can't really cluster the machine themselves (actually, I can't touch them at all). I'm *thinking* that this is done at the firewall level, since the Linux box that currently does this job does it with IPChains. Actually, as long as I can 'round robin' or 'ration' my traffic across those 4 servers from a IPFW gateway, I'll be happy. Thanks in advance for any info. -- Joel Dinel System Administrator TouchTunes Digital Jukebox, Inc. GnuPG key : http://lysander.mine.nu/~kint/mykey.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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