From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 11:38:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A9516A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:38:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obh.snafu.de (obh.snafu.de [213.73.92.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582F843D5C for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:38:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ob@gruft.de) Received: from ob by obh.snafu.de with local (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1Cjc9z-0009WX-SH for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:38:36 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:38:35 +0100 From: Oliver Brandmueller To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041229113835.GA29551@e-Gitt.NET> References: <200412241143.iBOBhTwR041675@smtp.doruk.net.tr> <6.2.0.14.2.20041228053234.0441d1b0@213.161.193.184> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20041228053234.0441d1b0@213.161.193.184> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Oliver Brandmueller Subject: Re: LoadBalancer With FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:38:38 -0000 Hi. On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:45:05AM +0100, Arnaud Pignard wrote: > There is no real great LB on FreeBSD :/ Yapp. > There is loadd how seems not very active project (never test). > You can do Round Robin with Ipfilter. > > Else you can try pen / morebalance etc... but depend of your need. > They are just proxy. pen work very well. > > Number of connection is not a big problem with good sysctl value and > compilation parameter. > The limit will be the hardware bus and interruption. > > PF+CARP is certainely the best choose (check freebsd-pf list). > But it's currently not avaible except with applying patch and seems not yet > stable. > (UCARP should be soon avaible on FBSD) > > Anyway, you will not find something like LVS. > > Best Regards, > > At 12:50 24/12/2004, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: > >Hi Everybody , > > > > Do you know any load balancer program for FreeBSD like linux > > LVS > >. I checked ports and find out morebalance-0.3 and loadd-0.8 ?! Anybody use > >those programs?! > >I want make a load balance on my frontend servers ?! > >Could you give me advise about using hardware-load-balancer or > >software-load-balancer ?! > >And I wonder How many connection can handle FreeBSD box ?! Because hardware > >load-balancer can up to 2.000.000 connection per box. I think that with > >PIII > >and 512 machine I can handle ?! Well, after reading all that: All these solutions need a certain time to set them up. I cannot really tell about their quality, but you should consider, that a solution like CARP can detect and do a failover a problem, when a server crashes - but not a service failure, like httpd not working correctly anymore. Then it's a question, what you are trying to balance. http only? If so: How about session handling (if you need that)? We use a hardware solution based on Alteon 180 (or 180e). You can buy those for less than 2000$ and they save you a lot of headaches. My 0.02$ - Oliver -- | Oliver Brandmueller | Offenbacher Str. 1 | Germany D-14197 Berlin | | Fon +49-172-3130856 | Fax +49-172-3145027 | WWW: http://the.addict.de/ | | Ich bin das Internet. Sowahr ich Gott helfe. | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung aller enthaltenen Adressen ist nicht gestattet! |