Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:44:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Dave Smith <dsmith@n2.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Layer 4 Switch, Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904172140110.7851-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <19990415173254.B29019@n2.net>
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Dave Smith wrote: > I believe that port redirection is only part of what a layer 4 switch > has to offer. > > With most layer 4 switches I believe you get load balancing amongst a > group of machines. Then if one goes down, the load gets transfered to > the other machines in the group. > > Has anyone thought about this type of an application? I know that it > would really put FreeBSD on the map if this was available for free. I've been thinking about a freeware reimplementation of the IBM's network dispatcher (http://www.software.ibm.com/network/dispatcher). Sounds like something easy to implement without (almost) any mofdifications to the system, and it seems to work well (at least what their experience in Nagano shows). Any takers? :-) Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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