From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Apr 17 12:46:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (unknown [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A890150FD for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 12:46:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C14F018C6; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:44:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C068E4999; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:44:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:44:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Dave Smith Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Bill Fumerola Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Layer 4 Switch, In-Reply-To: <19990415173254.B29019@n2.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 // 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