From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 6 16: 2:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dns3.solo.net (dns3.solo.net [64.23.2.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D9237B424 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:02:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dak@solo.net) Received: from solo.net (vip0 [64.23.2.19]) by dns3.solo.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f36N2vm93437; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:02:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dak@solo.net) Received: from corp.namesafe.com ([209.141.226.130]) (proxying for 10.0.0.10) (SquirrelMail authenticated user dak) by www.solo.net with HTTP; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:02:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4351.209.141.226.130.986598177.squirrel@www.solo.net> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:02:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Cluster Solution for FreeBSD From: "David A. Koran" To: In-Reply-To: <3ACE4173.6020708@nexgen.com> References: <3ACE4173.6020708@nexgen.com> Cc: Reply-To: dak@solo.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.1.0 [cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben, There is a port, originally developed by a branch of Ericsson called Eddieware, but I've had mixed results in ever getting it to work. If you're looking for a solution for server clustering, mod_backhand (which is not a port), does a little of what you're looking for for web servers. You may be able to piggy back your needs onto a few existing DNS load balancing technologies. I also remember there being a 2-node piece of software (they had a table at BSDCon this year and last) which they were expanding to a multi node solution some time 1st quater of this year. There is a copy of the early version of the 4CD set that comes with the Complete FreeBSD book, I think it's on the 3rd CD for commercial software. David > We are looking to setup a failover option and a load balancing otion > using the servers that are in place. At this point we have loaded > identical configurations on 3 machines. If one of the machines gets > overloaded, we would like to off some of the processing or connection > handling to one of the others. If one of the machines goes down we > would like to have the broken box fail over, and have the other > machines pick up the load. Ideally, we could add machines to and > remove machines from the cluster as needed. The ability to maintain > this configuration over a WAN would be of value as well. Is there any > known way to do this, any direction we should follow, or is it just a > pipe dream? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message