From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 13:04:37 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 B602E16A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:04:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5450A43D1D for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:04:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstalledo@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so17464wri for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:04:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=a9QqCG08zy+3r24PMVxldIi6QEkBC/Z9v2XZlGgTBGScGs5rjMIOCbJyU08JWtghmTaWJxxOG54k4JDyk5Ijlwu3PUMNMwk4Oqoc6rLpg6Qr7DApTuYnDEXyQHel7Nfmsa17BKTSyge7kGhX8XXn0OXHvo+Ju7gb+5w4hgNZjrk= Received: by 10.54.29.70 with SMTP id c70mr136770wrc; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:04:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.27.60 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:04:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:04:36 +0800 From: "Kahlil Erwin S. Talledo" To: Oliver Brandmueller In-Reply-To: <20041229113835.GA29551@e-Gitt.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200412241143.iBOBhTwR041675@smtp.doruk.net.tr> <6.2.0.14.2.20041228053234.0441d1b0@213.161.193.184> <20041229113835.GA29551@e-Gitt.NET> cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LoadBalancer With FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Kahlil Erwin S. Talledo" List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:04:37 -0000 Oliver, You can always whip up a scipt that would check if a certain service is up and running on your remote server... in the case of http you can throw an http request at it.... regards, On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:38:35 +0100, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: > 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! | > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- # K a h l i l E r w i n S . T a l l e d o # Systems/Network Manager # Riverside Medical Center, Inc. # # (P) BS Aquino Drive, Bacolod City 6100, PH # (T) 63.34.4337331.3131 # (M) 63.916.9247437 # (Y!) kinuxxx@yahoo.com # (MSN) kahliltalledo@hotmail.com