From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 12:32:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bom.thegrid.net (xbom.thegrid.net [209.162.0.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E86437B43C for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@thegrid.net) Received: from thegrid.net (grover.thegrid.net [192.168.2.13] (may be forged)) by bom.thegrid.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA11256; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3989C514.BF309212@thegrid.net> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:16:36 -0700 From: Tony Rini - System Administrator Organization: OneMain.Com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Turner Cc: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000803152542.00b6dfd8@mail.johnturner.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A nice layer 4 switch can do exactly that ... and yes, they are very expensive. -- Tony Rini tony@thegrid.net System Administrator Direct 805-503-7569 OneMain.Com www.onemain.com ------------------------------------------------- Your Hometown Internet ------------------------------------------------- John Turner wrote: > > http://www.cisco.com, the product is called Local Director. Intel also has > a product, the name escapes me at the moment. There are many others. Be > prepared to spend lots of money. > > - John Turner > > At 02:41 PM 8/3/2000 -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? > > > >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message