From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Dec 10 4:38:58 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 04:38:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from roam.home.net (idf7-17-166.adsl.proxad.net [213.228.17.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B2A137B401 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 04:38:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by roam.home.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01493; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:42:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from m.hallgren@free.fr) Sender: mh@roam.home.net Message-ID: <3A337A25.E2074762@free.fr> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:42:13 +0100 From: Michael Hallgren Reply-To: m.hallgren@free.fr X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manar Hussain Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load-Balancing - any solutions? References: <20001209171028.A32137@hades.hell.gr> <105102226954.20001205163641@x-itec.de> <20001205074217.Y8051@fw.wintelcom.net> <5676150678.20001205165002@buz.ch> <20001209171028.A32137@hades.hell.gr> <4.3.1.0.20001210115834.00ddfbb0@avengers.ivision.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Manar Hussain wrote: > > Hmm - haven't tracked this thread but there is a whole class of device > built around allowing web server load balancing. Alteon's / BigIP boxes > etc. Cost a reasonable amount but they are well suited to provide a quick, > easy and good solution to the problem. > For some generic things in this context, it might be interesting to take a look at the drafts at http://www.content-alliance.net/ - mainly concerned with frameworks for peering at the content layer (between content delivery networks). An interesting implementation of the kind is provided by Activia (http://www.activia.net/). For another nice implementation, check out the Foundry Network's way. Cheers Michael > Manar > -- Michael Hallgren, http://m.hallgren.free.fr/, MH2198-RIPE "Be careful what you sell. It may do exactly what the customer expects." - Ferengi #32 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message