From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 13:32:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AE237B7BE for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:32:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcglk@itchy.serv.net) Received: from itchy (itchy.serv.net [205.153.153.233]) by mx.serv.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA18801; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:31:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken McGlothlen To: Charles Randall Cc: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Network load balancing hardware ... In-Reply-To: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B301301C789AA@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com> 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 | Popular options are, | | Cisco LocalDirector (if your brain works well with Cisco) | Alteon ACE180e (with 8 x 10/100/GigE ports and 1 additional GigE) | F5 BIG-IP (BSDi-based) | CoyotePoint Equalizer (FreeBSD-based) | | Charles | | -----Original Message----- | From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org] | Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:41 AM | To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org | Subject: Network load balancing hardware ... | | 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 ... I realize you're looking for a hardware, and not a software solution, but I'm astonished that nobody has mentioned Eddie at this point. http://www.eddieware.org/ It falls under something close to the MPL, it's fully open-source, and it's more flexible than a strict load-balancer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message