Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 18:32:03 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Christopher M Sedore <cmsedore@maxwell.syr.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: IP source address based load balancing Message-ID: <XFMail.990306183203.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903060726360.8329-100000@30.maxwell.syr.edu>
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On 06-Mar-99 Christopher M Sedore wrote: > Yes. I'm hoping that I'll be able to write a "cluster" daemon that will > monitor the machines and reconfigure on failure or addition. A broadcast > heartbeat would allow failure detection. This is somewhat more complex > that I had originally hoped, since the operations would ideally not need > a "master" machine, and would be all distributed. This means that all > machines in a cluster need to somehow negotiate a mutually agreed upon > configuration through broadcasting to each other. I have some > not-too-developed ideas on how to do this, but there are a number of > failure modes, etc that have to be considered. Shouldn't a multicast heartbeat suffice? If one could avoid broadcasting wherever possible, avoid it. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <http://www.freebsdzine.org>; asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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