From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 6 2:58:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.solexine.fr (mail.solexine.fr [195.114.74.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5411A37B6D3 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 02:58:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@solexine.fr) Received: from mothra (monsterzero.solexine.fr [195.114.74.254]) by mail.solexine.fr (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 150-63470U200L2S100V35) with ESMTP id fr for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 11:58:35 +0200 From: "David TOUITOU" Organization: Solexine To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 11:59:22 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Re[2]: Network load balancing hardware ... Message-ID: <398D531A.30387.2D0EDD06@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 3 Aug 2000, at 20:22, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > Have a look at Eddie, www.eddieware.org. OpenSource sponsored by Ericsson. > > An Intelligent HTTP Gateway which provides site based > > Load Balancing, > > Reliability, > > Scalability, and > > Quality of Service. > > Eddie's feature list looks pretty impressive but what happens if the > load balancing box itself crashes? There's no single point of failure in Eddie's technology. Load balancing is done through a modified DNS box (you can put as many as you want). The traffic coming out of the web servers (or whatever) goes through "front end servers", and there too you can put as much as you need. Even the Internet access" is not a true SPF as you can use several ISP (add at least one modified DNS and front end server per ISP), and even geographical load balancing. I'm currently studying an Eddie solution between France and the US. Sounds great... Only "bad points" : . the DNS is only 4.9.x, YET . no true Windows (NT or 2K) back end software, YET (as we are using IIS web servers, corporate policy sometimes sux) -- ...................................................................... David Touitou http://dites-le.com SysAdmin and co Solexine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message