From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 29 20:32:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from server1.siscom.net (server1.siscom.net [209.251.2.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D30E114DEB for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from radams@siscom.net) Received: (qmail 1938 invoked from network); 30 Jun 1999 03:32:14 -0000 Received: from mp.siscom.net (HELO jason) ([209.251.2.49]) (envelope-sender ) by server1.siscom.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 30 Jun 1999 03:32:14 -0000 Message-ID: <015701bec2ab$6af9bb20$3102fbd1@siscom.net> From: "Robert J. Adams" To: "Barrett Richardson" , "Francisco Reyes" Cc: "Russell L. Carter" , References: Subject: Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:45:28 -0400 Organization: SISCOM, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Barrett, Any particular reason you chose the Alteon over the Foundry ServerIron? We are getting ready to pick up a l4 switch and are looking for recommendations. -j --- Robert J. Adams radams@siscom.net http://www.siscom.net Looking to outsource news? http://www.newshosting.com SISCOM Network Administration - President, SISCOM Inc. Phone: 937-222-8150 FAX: 937-222-8153 ----- Original Message ----- From: Barrett Richardson To: Francisco Reyes Cc: Russell L. Carter ; Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 11:07 PM Subject: Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering > > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:00:50 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > > > >%> Define clustering. If you mean a bunch of boxes that serve up HTTP > > >%> requests and the lot of them continue working in the face of a > > >%> failure on one > > > > Just recently found http://www.eddieware.org > > It is a research project for DNS and HTTP load balancing. > > > > > > Check out the ACE Director at www.alteon.com. You give the switch > the IP address of your website, plug each of your servers into > a different port. The switch relays and balances the port 80 traffic to > itself across the servers. > > I use a similar concept with a different alteon swith to do transparant > HTTP cacheing. Work great. If the cache server goes down, the > switch detects it instantaneously (in human terms) and our users > never know (except that the absence of the cache server makes > surfing slower). Works great. > > - > > Barrett > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message