From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 15:45:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lusardi.com (mail.lusardi.com [207.215.158.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8084D15956 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erinf@lusardi.com) Received: by MAIL with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:39:53 -0700 Message-ID: From: Erin Fortenberry To: 'Dan Nelson' , "Mark L. Holloway" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Can FreeBSD Cluster? Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:39:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --> --> 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