From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 22 11:14: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D605F15074 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:14:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA62646; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:13:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) To: alk@pobox.com Cc: julian@whistle.com, cmsedore@maxwell.syr.edu, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: clustering/load balancing In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:46:22 CST." <14070.29383.300007.474845@avalon.east> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:13:35 -0500 Message-ID: <62642.922130015@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anthony Kimball wrote in message ID <14070.29383.300007.474845@avalon.east>: > Quoth Gary Palmer on Mon, 22 March: > : even if you remove that SPoF, you leave others (mainly between the `load > : balancer' and the actual servers, unless you've figured out a way to have > : redundant NIC's in your servers) > > You don't need physically redundant nic in order to have multiple > load balancers: The servers don't care whether packets are routed to > them through nic 1 or nic 2. But how do you route back out? Running gated is one answer I guess... Not one I'd readily choose. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message