From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 11:40:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D473437B5B5 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from lerdesk (ler-desk.iadfw.net [206.66.13.18]) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.10.1/8.10.1/20000715) with SMTP id e73IeKd02688; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:40:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Larry Rosenman" To: "The Hermit Hacker" , "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: Subject: RE: Network load balancing hardware ... Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:40:18 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, they can. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of The Hermit Hacker Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 1:36 PM To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message