Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 19:25:40 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <200001230325.TAA37994@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:39:39 PST." <200001220139.RAA59492@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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> >
> > There are couple of RFCs on network load balancing with
> > respect to servers or services and I am sure that there
> > are also widely available research papers.
>
> Most of those concentrate on balancing the load on the server
> itself. How about balancing the load on the network paths,
> I doubt very much that we have a server load problem near as
> much as we have a network load problem due to people not
> having ready access to the data that says ``this server is
> closest network wise to me''.
>
>
Hi Rod!
Perhaps RFC 2391 may be of use.
Network Working Group P. Srisuresh
Request for Comments: 2391 Lucent Technologies
Category: Informational D. Gan
Juniper Networks, Inc.
August 1998
Load Sharing using IP Network Address Translation (LSNAT)
Enjoy
--
Amancio Hasty
hasty@rah.star-gate.com
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