From owner-freebsd-net Fri Mar 26 3:20:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from noc.demon.net (server.noc.demon.net [193.195.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6AE14EFC for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 03:20:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf@demon.net) Received: by noc.demon.net; id LAA14429; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:20:00 GMT Received: from fanf.noc.demon.net(195.11.55.83) by inside.noc.demon.net via smap (3.2) id xmaa14366; Fri, 26 Mar 99 11:19:44 GMT Received: from fanf by fanf.noc.demon.net with local (Exim 1.73 #2) id 10QUeN-0003eu-00; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:19:43 +0000 To: net@freebsd.org From: Tony Finch Subject: Re: clustering/load balancing In-Reply-To: <51315.922076863@gjp.erols.com> References: <36F1BA88.2F1CF0FB@whistle.com> Message-Id: Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:19:43 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary Palmer" wrote: >Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> +-------[Machine B] >> | >> [internet]-----[ Machine A ]-----+-------[Machine C] >> | >> +-------[Machine D] > ^^^^^^^^^ > >Single Point Of Failure A more problematic single point of failure is the shared filesystem that's presumably hanging off the right of the diagram. NetApps are fortunately quite reliable :-) Tony. -- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@demon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message