From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 19:11:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20847 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 19:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw01.execpc.com (mailgw01.execpc.com [169.207.16.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20837 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 19:11:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fpawlak@execpc.com) Received: from john (androzani-2-17.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.92.145]) by mailgw01.execpc.com (8.8.8) id VAA11209 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 21:11:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <199805122111050677.0028B88F@mailgate.execpc.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Evaluation Version 2.40.41.04 Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 21:11:05 -0500 From: "Frank Pawlak" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Server Load Balancing -re-posted Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry for the re-post of my question, but am re-posting due to the enlightenment brought upon me by our mail guru Greg Lehey. I had no Idea the this mailer was not word wrapping, and beg a thousand pardons for posting illegible questions. Thanks Greg, I seldom send mail to my self, except on long rainy weekends, so I had no way of knowing. Here is the question. Hello all, I have a question regarding Internet server load balancing. The client wants to build a redundant Linux Internet solution. I am trying to convince them to go with FreeBSD. It is an auction site that is currently running on one server. They want to build a second one. They do not want the new machine sitting around waiting for the primary to fail (which eliminates mirroring). They want some sort of load balancing when both machines are up. They want the ability to take a machine off-line for maintenance without affecting on-line users. If one of the machines would experience a failure, they want the other one to automatically absorb the additional load. Any ideas on how this can be implemented? Thanks in advance. Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message