Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:32:47 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua> To: Randy Smith <randys@amigo.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPFW as load balancer Message-ID: <20020618173131.S14695-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> In-Reply-To: <20020618082248.G6594-100000@stalker.amigo.net>
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Greetings! Sorry, it's my mistake. IMHO, yes, Your way is good solution. Sorry again. With respect, Alexander V Zubchenko, E-Mail: stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua System Administrator, WWW: http://www.hermes-comp.zp.ua/ Hermes-comp, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya, Geroev Stalingrada 50 phone/fax: +380 612 64-19-72 On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Randy Smith wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Alexander V Zubchenko wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:54:52 +0300 (EEST) > > From: Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua> > > To: Randy Smith <randys@amigo.net> > > Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Subject: Re: IPFW as load balancer > > > > Greetings! > > > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Randy Smith wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is it possible to use IPFW to do load balancing? I want to do create a > > Yes it is. > > > > > trasparent proxy to a cluster of Squid caches. I was thinking of something > > > along the lines of: > > > > > > add prob .33 fwd <cacheA>,3128 tcp from <my-net> to any 80 > > > add prob .50 fwd <cacheB>,3128 tcp from <my-net> to any 80 > > > add fwd <cacheC>,3128 tcp from <my-net> to any 80 > > > > > > Does this make sense or is there a better solution? > > Mayb 'ipfw add pipe N... && ipfw pipe N config....' may help. Look at > > manpage ipfw(8) for details on 'traffic shaping' (as this feature > > called in man). > > Thank you for your reply but I don't see how pipes are going to help here. > (I use them to do traffic shaping in other places.) It is my > understanding, and ipfw(8) doesn't change it, that pipes cannot send > packets to another ip address. Please givev me an example if I'm wrong. > > -- > Randy Smith > Amigo.Net Systems Administrator > 1-719-589-6100 x 4185 > http://www.amigo.net/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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