From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 29 17:19:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA13322 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 17:19:44 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA13316 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 17:19:39 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA23951; Fri, 30 Jun 1995 09:51:56 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506300021.JAA23951@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Load Balancing/Sharing w/ FreeBSD To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 09:51:56 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nc@ai.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 29, 95 10:03:41 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1457 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > DLS (the distributed login service) is what you want. Users get the > > DLS login on the modem server, which offers their credentials to the > > network. I know it can be used to share modem servers between several > > seperate hosts, I suspect that if it doesn't currently understand > > load averages, that it could easily be taught. > > Not all terminal servers support DLS. It is also pretty useless if > access is not through a modem server. - I maintain that a cheap '486 with 40M of local disk makes an excellent 16-port terminal server, for significantly less than the cost of a 'real' equivalent. - Not using a modem server in the original scenario is Just Plain Stupid; if you have a set of servers that are likely to be so loaded that you don't want logins to them, putting modems on them is a Really Bad Idea. Ergo, DLS is a pretty good way to go 8) > Tom (FWIW, there's a PA site here that's using a slightly modified version of dgetty/dlogin/dlsd if anyone's having trouble finding them...) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[