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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:18:49 -0500
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@maxwell.syr.edu>, "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: clustering/load balancing 
Message-ID:  <61116.922123129@gjp.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 03:10:13 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.990322030819.8498A-100000@current1.whistle.com> 

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Julian Elischer wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.95.990322030819.8498A-100000@current1.whistle.com>:
> 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
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info




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