From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 12:59:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.brwn.org (intgw1.brwn.org [196.28.127.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C697837B663 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from willem@snoopy.brwn.org) Received: by snoopy.brwn.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A146B1D9B; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 21:59:25 +0200 (SAST) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 21:59:25 +0200 From: Willem Brown To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... Message-ID: <20000803215925.L55450@snoopy.brwn.org> References: <20000803201554.J55450@snoopy.brwn.org> <147207323245.20000803202244@buz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <147207323245.20000803202244@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:22:44PM +0200 X-Public-Key: http://willem.brwn.org/pubkey.txt X-Chat-Server: http://chat.brwn.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:22:44PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > Have a look at Eddie, www.eddieware.org. OpenSource sponsored by Ericsson. > > An Intelligent HTTP Gateway which provides site based > > Load Balancing, > > Reliability, > > Scalability, and > > Quality of Service. > > > Eddie's feature list looks pretty impressive but what happens if the > load balancing box itself crashes? Good point. I've never used it myself so I don't know how you would set it up so you don't have a single point of failure for the whole site. Making an uneducated guess I recon you would still need some sort of backup for it in case it goes down. > > > Best regards, > Gabriel > > Best Regards Willem Brown -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ "We have the right to survive!" "Not be killing others." -- Deela and Kirk, "Wink of An Eye", stardate 5710.5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message