Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:47:39 -0500 From: "Bara Zani" <bara_zani@yahoo.com> Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Basic load balancing with IPFW Message-ID: <022101c1d1b0$84644e60$fd6e34c6@moti> References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOCEKCCLAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Good answer ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Joel Dinel" <dinjo@touchtunes.com> Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:42 AM Subject: RE: Basic load balancing with IPFW > 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 > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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