Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 18:37:58 +0200 From: Michael O Shea <micheal@com4u.ch> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: load balancing Message-ID: <p04320402b58d086f46aa@[10.10.10.150]> In-Reply-To: <20000708183736.A16123@pinetec.co.za> References: <20000708112606.G10253@pinetec.co.za> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007080855540.5054-100000@misery.sdf.com> <20000708183736.A16123@pinetec.co.za>
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>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? It pings it I guess. The Altheons boxes monitor the backends on a port level. Good software solutions are Polyserve Understudy and Zeus Load balancer http://www.zeus.com/products/lb1/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Micheal O Shea Email:micheal@com4u.ch com4u.ch http://www.com4u.ch Breitistrasse 7B PGP key available upon request. CH-5506 Maegenwil Tel: +41 62 896 46 26 Switzerland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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