From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 9 10: 7:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C623E37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exchange.corp.cre8.com (ns.cre8.com [216.135.81.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C84F43E3B for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sullrich@CRE8.COM) Received: by exchange.corp.cre8.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <4G1JH6ZT>; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:14:18 -0400 Message-ID: <2F6DCE1EFAB3BC418B5C324F13934C9601D237F8@exchange.corp.cre8.com> From: Scott Ullrich To: 'Ralph Forsythe' , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: load balancing Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:14:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Check out LOADD in the HUT project. http://www.bsdshell.net Good luck!! > -----Original Message----- > From: Ralph Forsythe [mailto:rf-list@centerone.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:19 PM > To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > Subject: load balancing > > > Ok, first off I have not checked into this, so that said... > > I'm looking for a software based load balancing solution. > I'd prefer that > it run on FreeBSD, and figure if anyone has done this, they'd > be on this > list. I would like to have this device sit in front of my other web > servers (or at least in parallel), process incoming requests, and > automatically bounce between multiple systems for balancing and > redundancy. Is there anything out there that will do this for me? > Perhaps a happy little ports dir I can make install? :) Preferrably I > could do something like this with redundant load balancers as > well (single > points of failure are bad)... > > Why not just buy a real balancer/CSS? Well, I have not found anything > cheap enough to be a real alternative. If someone knows of a > place for > this I'm all for that since performance might be better or at > least built > for the purpose, but in the meantime... > > thanks! > - Ralph > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message