From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 11:38:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat197.166.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.197.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95ED237B5B5 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:38:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA47867; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:35:54 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:35:54 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... In-Reply-To: <20000803095941.C4854@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * The Hermit Hacker [000803 09:55] 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? > > http://www.alteonwebsystems.com/ > http://www.coyotepoint.com/ > http://www.foundrynet.com/ Anyone used any of these? I'm looking at the Foundry specs, and it comes in an 8port model as their min. Can I config it so that the ports are grouped? So that 4ports are assigned to http traffic, for instance, and 4ports are assigned to imap/pop3? Am still reading through the docs, but figured maybe someone out there has experience with these ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message