From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 12:26:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oak.drexeltech.com (oak.drexeltech.com [64.39.31.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19CE337B773 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Received: from elmo.johnturner.com (adsl-static-1-C7B2BC85.detroit.mi.ameritech.net [199.178.188.133]) by oak.drexeltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA82960; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:33:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000803152542.00b6dfd8@mail.johnturner.com> X-Sender: jturner@mail.johnturner.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:26:38 -0400 To: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Turner Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://www.cisco.com, the product is called Local Director. Intel also has a product, the name escapes me at the moment. There are many others. Be prepared to spend lots of money. - John Turner At 02:41 PM 8/3/2000 -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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message