From owner-freebsd-net Thu May 11 7:16:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from pail.ircache.net (pail.scd.ucar.edu [128.117.28.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA8B437B9A4 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 07:16:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rousskov@ircache.net) Received: from localhost (rousskov@localhost) by pail.ircache.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA69761; Thu, 11 May 2000 08:16:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from rousskov@ircache.net) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 08:16:01 -0600 (MDT) From: Alex Rousskov To: Alexander Langer Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: load-balancing over routes and redundancy In-Reply-To: <20000511195647O.demizu@dd.iij4u.or.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 May 2000, Noritoshi Demizu wrote: > > I wanted to ask if we have some kind of route-balancing stuff in the > > tree/kernel? > > You might be interested in Linux Virtual Server Project. > See http://www.linux-vs.org/ Also, an off-the-shelf Layer-4 and Layer-7 switches will do server or proxy load balancing with "health checks". Cisco routers can load balance proxies using Cisco's WCCP protocol. There is also a relatively new NECP protocol that allows switches/routers/others to balance servers/proxies. Both WCCP and NECP include health checks as well. You might want to look at these technologies before implementing your ideas. Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message