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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:38:47 +0000
From:      Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk>
To:        Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net>, freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD, fail-over, and load balancing
Message-ID:  <01120617384702.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20011207072614.24182.qmail@cpdvg201.cms.usa.net>
References:  <20011207072614.24182.qmail@cpdvg201.cms.usa.net>

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On Friday 07 December 2001  7:26 am, Dustin Puryear wrote:

> 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
> archives for freebsd-questions wasn't searchable for some reason.) Any tips
> or leads on this?

To be honest, for what you want, looking around the freebsd-isp archives is 
going to yield more. As far as solutions go, yes, there are some available. 
There is a commercial product - PolyServe's Local Cluster stuff, and their 
high availability stuff is all supposed to be reasonable. There is also a 
shedload of free solutions, at least one of which was mentioned on one of the 
20-odd lists I'm on at the moment that is built on PicoBSD. I can't find the 
docs on that atm, but if I do, I'll send them on.

> I recently worked with Linux and LVS (on a Red Hat High Availability
> Service cluster), and that type of setup would be ideal. (Alas, changing to
> LVS is also not an option.) Just an example of what would be really nice to
> have in terms of features for the solution. :)

Well, -cluster probably isn't the right place. This is a quiet list, and most 
people here tend to be running their insane pieces of code over something 
like PVM or some-such - i.e. large scientific applications that need 
parallelism rather than HA/Load balancing.

-- 
Paul Robinson

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