From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 6 17: 7:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from realtime.net (dragon.realtime.net [205.238.128.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8604837B423 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:07:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucegb@realtime.net) Received: from tigerfish2.my.domain ([205.238.153.193]) by realtime.net ; Fri, 06 Apr 2001 19:06:21 -0600 Received: (from brucegb@localhost) by tigerfish2.my.domain (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3707RW24511; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:07:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brucegb) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:07:27 -0500 From: Bruce Burden To: Benjamin Flom , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cluster Solution for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010406190727.A24393@tigerfish2.my.domain> References: <3ACE4173.6020708@nexgen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ACE4173.6020708@nexgen.com>; from benf@nexgen.com on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 06:21:39PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > We are looking to setup a failover option and a load balancing otion > using the servers that are in place. At this point we have loaded > identical configurations on 3 machines. If one of the machines gets > overloaded, we would like to off some of the processing or connection > handling to one of the others. If one of the machines goes down we would > like to have the broken box fail over, and have the other machines pick > up the load. Ideally, we could add machines to and remove machines from > the cluster as needed. The ability to maintain this configuration over a > WAN would be of value as well. Is there any known way to do this, any > direction we should follow, or is it just a pipe dream? > What you describe is what UnixWare 7.1.x with Compaq ClusterWare(?) does, running Compaq Proliant hardware. I don't know of freeware that comes close to doing what ClusterWare does, unfortunately. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message