Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:16:36 -0700 From: Tony Rini - System Administrator <tony@thegrid.net> To: John Turner <john@drexeltech.com> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... Message-ID: <3989C514.BF309212@thegrid.net> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000803152542.00b6dfd8@mail.johnturner.com>
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A nice layer 4 switch can do exactly that ... and yes, they are very
expensive.
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John Turner wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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