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Subject: Re: Layer 4 switching in FBSD?
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You might want to check the HighUpTime project.
It does load balancing and guarantees high uptime.
It's ported(loadd & freevrrpd). I have never used it
though.

http://www.bsdshell.net/
http://www.b0l.org/

NikV

On Friday 09 July 2004 16:14, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> I'd like to implement some style of load balancing for my smtp and
> spamassassin servers. It was suggested to me that layer-4 switching was
> the way to go. I do not want to do round-robin DNS, as it could prove to
> be a problem if one of the boxes goes down.
>
> For bridging type firewalls and/or network surveylance equipment, I often
> put 5 NIC's into a FBSD box and it works perfectly great.
>
> I'd like to know if FBSD is capable of layer-4 switching, or some other
> similar technology to load balance that it can do while loaded up with
> NIC's.
>
> Tks for any input, suggestions or advice.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
>
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