From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 11:16: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.brwn.org (intgw1.brwn.org [196.28.127.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B035337B635 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:15:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willem@snoopy.brwn.org) Received: by snoopy.brwn.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 93CFD1D9B; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 20:15:55 +0200 (SAST) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 20:15:55 +0200 From: Willem Brown To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... Message-ID: <20000803201554.J55450@snoopy.brwn.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from scrappy@hub.org on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:41:03PM -0300 X-Public-Key: http://willem.brwn.org/pubkey.txt X-Chat-Server: http://chat.brwn.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Have a look at Eddie, www.eddieware.org. OpenSource sponsored by Ericsson. An Intelligent HTTP Gateway which provides site based Load Balancing, Reliability, Scalability, and Quality of Service. Regards Willem Brown On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:41:03PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > I need to find a piece of hardware, but for the life of me I can't think > of the name to search on at someplace like Google ... > > Basically, I need a box to sit in front of two boxes that handles > connections to those two boxes ... if one goes down, the 'frontend' knows > and only sends requests to the other one ... > > Does anyone know *what* I'm talking about, and/or who sells such a beast? > > Thanks ... > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence. -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message