Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:39:52 -0700 From: Erin Fortenberry <erinf@lusardi.com> To: 'Dan Nelson' <dnelson@emsphone.com>, "Mark L. Holloway" <mholloway@flashmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Can FreeBSD Cluster? Message-ID: <AFB0749029D0D211AD3900902728125103A951@MAIL>
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--> --> In the last episode (Jun 09), Mark L. Holloway said: --> > Can FreeBSD cluster? If you were setting servers for --> high bandwidth --> > demands (real audio/video, shoutcast, web, ftp) what would be the --> > ideal configuration? Just wondering.. I read an --> interview with Linus --> > that Linux has this ability. --> --> For simple things like load-balancing web/ftp services, you --> don't need --> clustering at all. Simply have a bunch of machines all set --> up with the --> same DNS name: --> --> $ host ftp.netscape.com --> ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.79.198 --> ftp.netscape.com has address 204.131.112.43 --> ftp.netscape.com has address 204.131.112.52 --> ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.72.74 --> ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.72.21 --> ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.79.194 --> ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.79.195 --> ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.79.196 --> ftp.netscape.com has address 207.200.79.197 This is not load-balancing. This is round-robin. Load-balancing requires external hardware or custom software and a gateway. Erin mailto:kahn@deadbbs.com http://www.deadbbs.com http://www.fortenberry.net "Mooooo" "Strange, We've not installed any Microsoft software on our machines; none of them should be acting like cows" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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