From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 22 9:19:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D26714D12 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:19:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA61120; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:18:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Christopher Sedore , "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: clustering/load balancing In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 03:10:13 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:18:49 -0500 Message-ID: <61116.922123129@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Julian Elischer wrote in message ID : > so? > I was just giving an example of load sharing using exisiting > code. > I probably wouldn't have A actually doing work, > that way it'd be a hell of a lot more reliable, > and hey, a PC is cheap..have another on standby. I wasn't faulting you Julian... there was a smiley firmly attached. If nothing else, even if you remove that SPoF, you leave others (mainly between the `load balancer' and the actual servers, unless you've figured out a way to have redundant NIC's in your servers) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message