From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 01:31:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045BB16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:31:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED8443D53 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:31:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.23] (andersonbox3.centtech.com [192.168.42.23]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id iBS1VdOJ031637; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:31:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <41D0B775.3030408@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:31:33 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041110 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vahric MUHTARYAN References: <200412241143.iBOBhTwR041675@smtp.doruk.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <200412241143.iBOBhTwR041675@smtp.doruk.net.tr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LoadBalancer With FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:31:48 -0000 Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: > Hi Everybody , > > Do you know any load balancer program for FreeBSD like linux LVS > . I checked ports and find out morebalance-0.3 and loadd-0.8 ?! Anybody use > those programs?! > I want make a load balance on my frontend servers ?! > Could you give me advise about using hardware-load-balancer or > software-load-balancer ?! > And I wonder How many connection can handle FreeBSD box ?! Because hardware > load-balancer can up to 2.000.000 connection per box. I think that with PIII > and 512 machine I can handle ?! This might be better suited to the freebsd-performance lists, however I suppose this is as good of an audience as that. What kind of connections? When you say load balancer, do you mean true load balancing, or load distribution? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder ------------------------------------------------------------------------