From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 30 15: 8:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABFB15765 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:08:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA27043; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA03148; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:07:22 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA17007; Wed, 30 Jun 99 15:07:17 PDT Message-Id: <377A9515.86415512@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:07:17 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "David E. Cross" Cc: Miguel Gilly , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering References: <199906300037.UAA65916@cs.rpi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David E. Cross" wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > You do this on FreeBSD (or Linux or Solaris) by creating a "layer 4 > > router" or HTTP switch that directs traffic evenly among your several > > web servers, and stops sending traffic to servers that have failed. > > Where could someone find information on setting this up, and what software > to use? Eddieware: http://www.eddieware.org/ > I have someone who would be very interested in this. Isn't the > "layer 4 router" a SPoF though? What does "layer 4 router" have to do with the Association of Swedish Patent Attorneys (www.spof.com)? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message