Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 14:22:50 GMT From: steven@shellnet.co.uk (Steven Fletcher) To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IP Load balancing Message-ID: <361a2474.1852724@smtp.shellnet.co.uk>
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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
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