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Subject: Re: Basic load balancing with IPFW
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Good answer ;-) 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
To: "Joel Dinel" <dinjo@touchtunes.com>
Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:42 AM
Subject: RE: Basic load balancing with IPFW


> 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
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