Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:28:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load-balancing box Message-ID: <199608120628.IAA27707@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.93.960812140023.7033A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from "Michael Hancock" at Aug 12, 96 02:10:02 pm
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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.
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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