From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 7:21:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uk2.kanda-systems.net (uk2.kanda-systems.net [193.195.117.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49D737B400 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:21:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.kanda-systems.net (localhost.kanda-systems.net [127.0.0.1]) by uk2.kanda-systems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DF63C1ED; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:19:19 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:19:19 +0000 (GMT) From: jason+freebsd@kanda.com X-X-Sender: jason@uk2.kanda-systems.net Reply-To: jason+freebsd@kanda.com To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: Joel Dinel , FBSDQ Subject: RE: Basic load balancing with IPFW In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020322160952.Q28894-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > You really should take more time to comprehend the meaning > of what these articles are implying. > Load balancing IS the result of bandwidth throttling. > Just think about it. > > Oh well, you know the old saying, > you can lead a horse to water but you can not make him drink. The original poster was referring to balancing available server resources, you seem to be thinking about balancing bandwidth resources. The two are not the same and require different techniques. To the original poster: Maybe you can post some censored firewall rules from the Linux box? This might make it easier for someone else to advise you. Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message