From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 11 23:29:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03564 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 23:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ra.dkuug.dk (ra.dkuug.dk [193.88.44.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA03559 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 23:29:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ra.dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA27707; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:28:55 +0200 Message-Id: <199608120628.IAA27707@ra.dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: Load-balancing box To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:28:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Michael Hancock" at Aug 12, 96 02:10:02 pm From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Michael Hancock who wrote: > > Cisco has a cool new product called LocalDirector that looks like the > perfect load balancing solution. > > The box has an Intel MB, P133, and 2 Intel 10/100 Ethernet cards. > > A designated IP number can be setup so that when it hits the box it > translates it to one of the IP addresses for the multiple servers sitting > behind it. Otherwise it just functions as bridge. > > When it dispatches the request to one of the servers it starts a timer to > measure the response time. It uses the response time statistics to > determine which server to dispatch the next request to. > > If a server goes down then it stops dispatching requests to it. Nice idea, I'll give them that... > How hard would it be to build something like this with FreeBSD? Actually I think it would be pretty easy, depending on how familliar one is with the network code. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time.