Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:13:35 -0500 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: alk@pobox.com Cc: julian@whistle.com, cmsedore@maxwell.syr.edu, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clustering/load balancing Message-ID: <62642.922130015@gjp.erols.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:46:22 CST." <14070.29383.300007.474845@avalon.east>
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Anthony Kimball wrote in message ID <14070.29383.300007.474845@avalon.east>: > 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. But how do you route back out? Running gated is one answer I guess... Not one I'd readily choose. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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