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Subject: Re: Load balancing for web servers
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Max Laier wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 August 2006 18:52, Mike Jakubik wrote:
>   
>> Max Laier wrote:
>>     
>>> Have a look at: http://www.countersiege.com/doc/pfsync-carp/#big for
>>> one idea.  All requirements (carp, pf and pfsync) are available in
>>> FreeBSD as well.
>>>       
>> You can load balance with CARP, but AFAIK it only works on the local
>> network segment, i.e. it wont work past a router.
>>     
>
> Did you look at the sollution described at the above URL?
>
>   

The link did not work, it seems to work now though. Good info.