From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jul 8 9:38:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from com4u.ch (ccgate.com4u.ch [195.129.74.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1754637BF3F for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:38:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from micheal@com4u.ch) Received: from [10.10.10.150] (HELO [10.10.10.150]) by com4u.ch (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3b9) with ESMTP id 1480038 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2000 18:40:09 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: micheal@mail.com4u.ch Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000708183736.A16123@pinetec.co.za> References: <20000708112606.G10253@pinetec.co.za> <20000708183736.A16123@pinetec.co.za> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 18:37:58 +0200 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Michael O Shea Subject: Re: load balancing Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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? 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