From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 13: 4:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E45337B53A for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:04:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 26907 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 20:04:32 -0000 Received: from client98-229.hispeed.ch (HELO ATHLON-550) (62.2.98.229) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 3 Aug 2000 20:04:32 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 22:05:53 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45 Beta/6) Personal Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <130213512514.20000803220553@buz.ch> To: Willem Brown Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Network load balancing hardware ... In-reply-To: <20000803215925.L55450@snoopy.brwn.org> References: <20000803201554.J55450@snoopy.brwn.org> <147207323245.20000803202244@buz.ch> <20000803215925.L55450@snoopy.brwn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Willem, Thursday, August 03, 2000, 9:59:25 PM, you wrote: >> 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. I've got some ideas how one could handle it quite cheaply. If I ever get some time and four spare boxes (two for load balancing, two behind), I'll try it ;-) Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message