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Subject: Re: clustering/load balancing 
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Quoth Gary Palmer on Mon, 22 March:
: 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)

You don't need physically redundant nic in order to have multiple
load balancers:  The servers don't care whether packets are routed to
them through nic 1 or nic 2.  


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