From owner-freebsd-cluster Thu Dec 6 23:26:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from urdvg135.cms.usa.net (urdvg135.cms.usa.net [204.68.25.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B098B37B417 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 23:26:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23081 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 07:34:40 -0000 Received: from cpdvg201.cms.usa.net (165.212.10.5) by outbound.postoffice.net with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 07:34:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 24183 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Dec 2001 07:26:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20011207072614.24182.qmail@cpdvg201.cms.usa.net> Received: from 165.212.10.5 by mx05 for [209.179.127.3] via web-mailer(34FM.0700.21.01) on Fri Dec 7 07:26:14 GMT 2001 Date: 7 Dec 2001 01:26:14 CST From: Dustin Puryear To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD, fail-over, and load balancing X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM.0700.21.01) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was recently put in charge of a project involving FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE. = The goal of the project is to configure a FreeBSD based web cluster. Natural= ly, we are looking for fail-over and load-balancing solutions. (The load-bala= ncing solution would direct HTTP request to the best available web node. The director would hopefully run on a FreeBSD system as I was given no fundin= g for additional hardware. Basically, FreeBSD or bust.) Are there existing solutions? I did a search of freebsd-cluster with the phrase "load balancing" and came up a bit short on information. (The arch= ives for freebsd-questions wasn't searchable for some reason.) Any tips or lea= ds on this? I recently worked with Linux and LVS (on a Red Hat High Availability Serv= ice cluster), and that type of setup would be ideal. (Alas, changing to LVS i= s also not an option.) Just an example of what would be really nice to have= in terms of features for the solution. :) Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message