From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 29 19: 7:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailer.syr.edu (mailer.syr.edu [128.230.18.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F21F11527C for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:07:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu) Received: from rodan.syr.edu by mailer.syr.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.C832C910@mailer.syr.edu>; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:07:30 -0400 Received: from localhost (cmsedore@localhost) by rodan.syr.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA20052; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:07:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rodan.syr.edu: cmsedore owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:07:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Sedore X-Sender: cmsedore@rodan.syr.edu To: Miguel Gilly Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering In-Reply-To: <199906291855.SAA21433@luna.pingnet.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Miguel Gilly wrote: > Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More > http://www.bonsai-studio.com > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Dear Sirs, > > I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant > clustering capabilities for ISP applications. > > Nowadays I feel that it is a far better choice to choose a x86 Unix cluster > over the expensive Sun/SGI SMP servers. > > I found some affordable tools for Linux, but almost nothing for FreeBSD. I > feel such an ability would raise the value a lot of FreeBSD. > I wrote a simple one--take a look at http://tfeed.maxwell.syr.edu/cluster.txt and http://tfeed.maxwell.syr.edu/fbsd-cluster-0.1.tgz It isn't terribly advanced, but it does work and could be easily modified or extended. -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message