From owner-freebsd-isp  Sat Jul  8  9:33: 0 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Received: from mail.lawforum.co.za (ns3.dataweb.co.za [196.25.141.38])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5112437B7CD
	for <isp@freebsd.org>; Sat,  8 Jul 2000 09:32:56 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from rip@pinetec.co.za)
Received: from rip by mail.lawforum.co.za with local (Exim 3.02 #1)
	id 13Axbk-0004Du-00; Sat, 08 Jul 2000 18:37:36 +0200
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 18:37:36 +0200
From: "R.I.Pienaar" <rip@pinetec.co.za>
To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>,
	Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com>,
	Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>,
	Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>, Alan Batie <batie@rdrop.com>,
	isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: load balancing
Message-ID: <20000708183736.A16123@pinetec.co.za>
References: <20000708112606.G10253@pinetec.co.za> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007080855540.5054-100000@misery.sdf.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007080855540.5054-100000@misery.sdf.com>; from tom@sdf.com on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 08:58:17AM -0700
Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

On Sat Jul 08, 2000 at 08:58:17AM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> 
>   Foundry Networks makes a load-balancer box that is able to keep itself
> synced with another unit for both fail-over and load-balancing.  The unit
> balances requests to whatever backend servers you have, and if one of the
> backend servers croaks, the Foundry unit stops sending requests to it.
> This solution give you complete backend and frontend redunancy.

how does it monitor the boxes behind the load blanacer, when does it find out
that your box died and its ment to failover?


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message