From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 12 01:52:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA09319 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 01:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA09213; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 01:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA01972; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 18:51:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 18:51:37 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: sos@FreeBSD.org cc: Michael Hancock , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Load-balancing box In-Reply-To: <199608120628.IAA27707@ra.dkuug.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 sos@FreeBSD.org wrote: > In reply to Michael Hancock who wrote: > > > > A designated IP number can be setup so that when it hits the box it > > translates it to one of the IP addresses for the multiple servers sitting > > behind it. Otherwise it just functions as bridge. > > > > If a server goes down then it stops dispatching requests to it. > > Nice idea, I'll give them that... > > > How hard would it be to build something like this with FreeBSD? > > Actually I think it would be pretty easy, depending on how familliar > one is with the network code. Darren Reed already has working src ip translation. It should not be hard to change it to dest addr translation. See http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ Danny