From owner-freebsd-net Thu May 11 3:19: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (sunbay-10BASE-T.cris.net [212.110.130.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D5A37B797 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 03:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.9.3/1.13) id NAA52294; Thu, 11 May 2000 13:17:32 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 13:17:32 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Alexander Langer Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: load-balancing over routes and redundancy Message-ID: <20000511131732.A51911@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Alexander Langer , freebsd-net@freebsd.org References: <20000511111946.A5785@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000511111946.A5785@cichlids.cichlids.com>; from alex@big.endian.de on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 11:19:46AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 11:19:46AM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > Hello! > > I wanted to ask if we have some kind of route-balancing stuff in the > tree/kernel? > We have the simplest form of load balancing implemented within libalias(3)/natd(8) in -current. The server is choosen on a round-robin basis. This feature is called LSNAT (Load Sharing using Network Address Translation), and is described in RFC 2391. Please see the natd(8) manpage, and search for word "LSNAT". Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@sunbay.crimea.ua Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message