From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jul 30 6:13:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from Thanatos.Shenton.Org (a3.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 070C537B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 06:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 4780 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Jul 2001 13:13:07 -0000 To: Fabrizio Ravazzini Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mail Toaster CLUSTER References: <20010730093800.57291.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> From: Chris Shenton Date: 30 Jul 2001 09:13:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20010730093800.57291.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <87puaiy2zg.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Fabrizio Ravazzini writes: > > Replacing the vqalive software with some load > > balancing with failover > > mechanisms, such as balance > > (http://balance.sourceforge.net) or any of > > the commercial products. > > And for balance.sourceforge.net, does it shares a > single Ip? What's the point of the VQalive box? It seems to me it introduces another single point of failure. Perhaps if you had two of them and used VRRPd you'd avoid the SPOF. But really, if you eliminate the VQalive box and set both MX boxes are equal-weights in the DNS, then inbound mail will automatically load-balance to them. I guess I don't see the added value of the VQalive box and only see a negative. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message