From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 19 09:39:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BE716A415 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:39:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com) Received: from sun-fish.com (blah.sun-fish.com [217.18.249.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA48A43D79 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:39:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com) Received: from sun-fish.com (localhost.cmotd.com [127.0.0.1]) by sun-fish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C655338467 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:39:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.3.112] (boar.cmotd.com [192.168.3.112]) by sun-fish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843C538444 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:39:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <450FBAC2.5020600@sun-fish.com> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:39:14 +0300 From: Stefan Lambrev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060918) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <450F8777.7080407@gmail.com> <20060919083955.GB87657@e-Gitt.NET> <450FAF42.50401@goodforbusiness.co.uk> <200609191216.24457.dzalewski@open-craft.com> <450FB8AF.7040700@goodforbusiness.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <450FB8AF.7040700@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV Subject: Re: bind round robin X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:39:24 -0000 Dominic Marks wrote: > From the original message: > > [1] >>>>> >>>>> www IN A 10.10.10.10 >>>>> www IN A 192.168.0.10 >>>>> > >> >> From pen homepage: >> >> "This is pen, a load balancer for "simple" tcp based protocols such >> as http or smtp." >> >> As I know DNS uses both tcp and udp protocols. > > From the posters excerpt it looks like they are looking to load > balance HTTP. [1] > >> For failover you can try OpenBSD Packet Filter with CARP protocol. PF >> can do load-balacing using different algorithms also. CARP is ported >> to FreeBSD. More info on: http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/carp.html > > Also true. Last time I looked at this however there was a big > disclaimer saying that > CARP's load balancing was likely to give a distorted distribution of > load and I don't > believe it does weighting. I believe this would also be a problem > considering the > example in [1]: > > From carp(4): > > Note: ARP balancing only works on the local network segment. It > cannot > balance traffic that crosses a router, because the router itself > will > always be balanced to the same virtual host. > > Cheers, > Dominic Yes but the idea here is to use http balancer that runs on CARP interface(s) for fail-over. Balancing will be done by balancer ;) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Best Wishes, Stefan Lambrev ICQ# 24134177