From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 10:51:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from state.net (dorthy.state.net [204.75.238.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CECD37B65D for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@state.net) Received: from state.net (redoak.state.net [204.75.238.247]) by state.net (8.8.8/8.7.2) with ESMTP id MAA03105; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:52:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3989B105.33980959@state.net> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:51:01 -0500 From: Jon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Foundry Networks, Hydraweb, Local Director, Network Appliances, etc... Search for 'Load Balancers' on Google, and you'll find what you need. Jon The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > I need to find a piece of hardware, but for the life of me I can't think > of the name to search on at someplace like Google ... > > Basically, I need a box to sit in front of two boxes that handles > connections to those two boxes ... if one goes down, the 'frontend' knows > and only sends requests to the other one ... > > Does anyone know *what* I'm talking about, and/or who sells such a beast? > > Thanks ... > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message