From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 28 17:57:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A238337B400; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 17:57:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0509.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.254] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 171zTz-00013n-00; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 17:57:36 -0700 Message-ID: <3CCC9A61.A154D411@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 17:57:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Cc: Baldur Gislason , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: load balancing with 2 nic cards possible? References: <5.1.1.2.2.20020426234504.029f7c30@208.141.46.3> <3CCA4004.B9A8D57A@mindspring.com> <20020427161558.CC4CF2744@tesla.foo.is> <002301c1eef6$5894d940$4e76cb3f@ssn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt wrote: > You may try some other kind of load balance and fail safe from > www.xgforce.com. It's a layer 3 and layer 7 global clustering software for > FreeBSD. Wrong kind of "load balancing". The original poster wanted channel bonding, not server load balancing. The layer 3 in the referenced product is (apparently) not really layer 3. VIPs alone do not a layer 3 load balancer make. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message