From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 10:54:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85F6337B6AE for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 24682 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 17:54:23 -0000 Received: from client98-229.hispeed.ch (HELO 10.2.2.100) (62.2.98.229) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 3 Aug 2000 17:54:23 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 19:55:47 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45 Beta/6) Personal Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <81205706650.20000803195547@buz.ch> To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 ... - Cisco has got one called LocalDirector - Foundry Networks has got one Called ServerIron (last time I looked, this one seemed to have the most features) - Lucent has one, don't remember it's name - IIRC there was something on some IBM site I think there are plenty out there by now. Personally, I would be interested to hear some comments if anyone is using such a solution. Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message