From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 6 16:57:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D1537B43C for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3705Cp76010; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:05:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:05:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Benjamin Flom Cc: Subject: Re: Cluster Solution for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3ACE4173.6020708@nexgen.com> Message-ID: <20010406200342.R75859-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Benjamin Flom wrote: >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? I notice you're getting lots of software answers. Personally something this complex and important to your operation I'd put your machines behind a hardware load balancer. It will save time and subsequently money in the long run. -- Brandon D. Valentine This message is encrypted with ROT-26. Any attempt to circumvent this encryption is expressly prohibited under 17 USC 512. Violators may be prosecuted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message