From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 6 07:23:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24140 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.shellnet.co.uk (smtp.shellnet.co.uk [194.129.209.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA24123 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:23:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steven@shellnet.co.uk) Received: from STEVENF (eth2-fw1.bolton.shellnet.co.uk [194.129.209.8]) by smtp.shellnet.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1-shellnet.stevenf) with SMTP id PAA06890 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:22:49 +0100 (BST) Posted-Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:22:49 +0100 (BST) From: steven@shellnet.co.uk (Steven Fletcher) To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IP Load balancing Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 14:22:50 GMT Message-ID: <361a2474.1852724@smtp.shellnet.co.uk> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA24135 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've recently encountered a product on WinNT, named Convoy and I am wondering if there is anything at all like this for FreeBSD... I'll explain. It basically is a way of 2 machines and 2/4 network cards sharing one IP address. They talk to each other (via MAC I belive) and also talk to the router which they are connected to via the network, answering ARP requests in a kind of you-me order. If one server crashes then the other one takes over regardless. Now; FreeBSD has never - in over a year now of using it crashed for me :).... but as a service to our customers we do boast high levels of redundancy - You get the picture.... so basically is there any kind of sharing system like this for FreeBSD ? Round-Robin DNS is not the answer - if we take one server offline then every 2nd user gets a duff connection. Any suggestions most appreciated... thanks. Steven Fletcher steven@shellnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message