From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 6 17: 4:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dns3.solo.net (dns3.solo.net [64.23.2.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2845337B43C for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dak@solo.net) Received: from solo.net (vip0 [64.23.2.19]) by dns3.solo.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3704om94433; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:04:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dak@solo.net) Received: from corp.namesafe.com ([209.141.226.130]) (proxying for 10.0.0.10) (SquirrelMail authenticated user dak) by www.solo.net with HTTP; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:04:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1760.209.141.226.130.986601895.squirrel@www.solo.net> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:04:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Cluster Solution for FreeBSD From: "David A. Koran" To: In-Reply-To: <20010406200342.R75859-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> References: <20010406200342.R75859-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> Cc: , Reply-To: dak@solo.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.1.0 [cvs]) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We use a Arrowpoint CS800 here, and at $275k a pop, it's not exactly economical. You can probably get an F5 or Cisco Local Director to do it, but then again, we're probably trying to get the best bang for the least buck. Most of the load balancers don't work with out the load information being spewed to them, and that usually required some SNMP implementation, and that opens up a whole can of security concerns. The CS800 will only, if I remember the docs correctly, balance on load and resources of the pool of machines if that information is sent explictly to the balancing application. David > On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Benjamin Flom wrote: > > I notice you're getting lots of software answers. Personally something > this complex and important to your operation I'd put your machines > behind a hardware load balancer. It will save time and subsequently > money in the long run. > > -- > Brandon D. Valentine > > This message is encrypted with ROT-26. Any attempt to circumvent this > encryption is expressly prohibited under 17 USC 512. Violators may be > prosecuted. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message