From owner-freebsd-cluster Sun Nov 10 0: 7:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EFE337B401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 00:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fuzuli.enderunix.org (64.90.191.122.nyinternet.net [64.90.191.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A69CB43E42 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 00:07:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@faruk.net) Received: (qmail 45869 invoked by uid 89); 10 Nov 2002 08:08:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20021110080857.45866.qmail@fuzuli.enderunix.org> From: "Omer Faruk Sen" To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clustering freebsd Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 03:08:57 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. I want to share my experiences about HA in FreeBSD. We haven't much choice in FreeBSD for clustering. I have read about Sporner's (http://sporner.dyndns.org/freebsdclusters/ ) project a few days ago but didn't set it up. It seems promising but I think it lacks file replication? And I really want to hear from him about maturity level of his product. I have installed polyserve's (www.polyserve.com) clustering software for FreeBSD. It does nice on HA and File replication. I can suggest it but it is commercial product. Michael I think you need to learn clustering terms. You may want to look at www.linuxvirtualserver.org and www.ultramonkey.org. Especially ultramonkey has nice pictures that depicts everything. Ultramonkey is a part of vanessa project and vannessa also includes super sparrow (which is a global HA solution that uses BGP for the nearest route). Anyway go and look at the pictures at ultramonkey. There is also linux-ha.org project that is being or was ported ( I don't know the maturity level of it) to FreeBSD. I think that project is very good for HA @ FreeBSD. Someone mentioned VRRP. There is also vrrp implementation in FreeBSD which named freevrrpd (/usr/ports/net/freevrrpd). To conclude Linux is better in clustering solutions we have to admit it :( despite FreeBSD is better in networking (my personal thoughts). PS: I think we can set up a FreeBSD Clustering page just like www.lcic.org does which provides information articles .... I can arrange a web page, ftp, cvs for it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message