From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 1 19:41:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from benzine.rootprompt.net (mail.rootprompt.net [208.53.161.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A9137B4EC for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:41:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Robert Banniza" To: Subject: Layer 4 load balancing... Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:41:26 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20010201220026.J253@speedy.gsinet> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This may not be the right place to discuss this but I think it's worth a shot. I have been looking at the Linux Virtual Server project lately to find a solution of Layer 4 switching (load balancing) for web/ftp/smtp for the ISP I work for. I have noticed that the only type solution found for *BSD is the BigIP F5 hardware appliance running their own software with BSDi as the OS. I was wondering if anyone has thought of or made plans to incorporate some type of layer 4 switching into FreeBSD whether it is built into the kernel or whether it could be part of ports. I would like to "try" (I use this term loosely as I have no idea what I'm doing) as get something going like this for FreeBSD. I would also like for the solution to be open source as Layer 4 switches are expensive and there are not a lot of free solutions out. Anyone have any opinions on the idea? Maybe I'm way off topic here but I would at least like to start here. I need be, I will move the discussion elsewhere where it properly belongs. Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message