From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 6:42:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mango-bay.com (mail.mango-bay.com [208.206.15.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AD1E37B400 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:42:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from barbish ([63.70.155.70]) by mail.mango-bay.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52377U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id com; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:42:04 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" To: "Joel Dinel" Cc: "FBSDQ" Subject: RE: Basic load balancing with IPFW Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:42:03 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20020322084026.A21439@sunder.touchtunes.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Start here http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/07/26/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Finish up here http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joel Dinel Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:40 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Basic load balancing with IPFW I've been googling and reading man pages all morning, and I can't find out if I can do some very basic load balancing with IPFW. Basically, I have four servers with the exact same config. I want to equally (or not) distribute traffic across them. Suppose I get 200 connections, I'd want to be able to distribute them like so : Server1 : 50 connections Server2 : 50 connections Server3 : 50 connections Server4 : 50 connections Or, Server1 : 80 connections Server2 : 20 connections Server3 : 50 connections Server4 : 50 connections And so on. I can't really cluster the machine themselves (actually, I can't touch them at all). I'm *thinking* that this is done at the firewall level, since the Linux box that currently does this job does it with IPChains. Actually, as long as I can 'round robin' or 'ration' my traffic across those 4 servers from a IPFW gateway, I'll be happy. Thanks in advance for any info. -- Joel Dinel System Administrator TouchTunes Digital Jukebox, Inc. GnuPG key : http://lysander.mine.nu/~kint/mykey.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message