From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 11:54:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wormhole.bluestar.net (wormhole.bluestar.net [208.53.1.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8938B37B851 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@planetwe.com) Received: from bsd.planetwe.com (bsd.planetwe.com [64.182.69.158]) by wormhole.bluestar.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e73IsX720927; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:54:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from steve@localhost) by bsd.planetwe.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA83106; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:54:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from steve) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:54:33 -0500 From: Steve Price To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... Message-ID: <20000803135433.A77455@bsd.planetwe.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from scrappy@hub.org on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:41:03PM -0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:41:03PM -0300, 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? We are using ArrowPoint CS150s. They are pretty pricey but well worth the money that we spent on them. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message