From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 03:28:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5897B16A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:28:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE63043D46 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:28:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 29813 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2005 14:28:00 +1100 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO ?10.168.101.24?) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 10 Nov 2005 14:28:00 +1100 Message-ID: <4372BE5E.2030505@meijome.net> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:28:30 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Lord References: <6.2.3.4.2.20051109122614.0466c9a8@pop.msdi.ca> <06e801c5e556$7971daa0$05dc3818@mdm246a3e4f6fc> <6.2.3.4.2.20051109131857.04659908@pop.msdi.ca> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20051109131857.04659908@pop.msdi.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jon Krause Subject: Re: Web Balancing with multicast X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:28:01 -0000 Ian Lord wrote: > Thanks for the hint, but this is an active/passive software so only one > host can answer request while others wait to see if they need to become > master (because master has failed) > > (Ian, please do NOT top post) you may want to look into wackamole, which uses the spread protocol. also read on the wacktrl for some extra control. best, Beto