From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 09:35:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C53106567D; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:35:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rkramer@mweb.com) Received: from mwbmarshal.mweb.com (mwbmarshal.mweb.com [196.2.141.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C0E8FC13; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:35:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rkramer@mweb.com) Received: from mwbfes1.mweb.com (Not Verified[196.2.141.73]) by mwbmarshal.mweb.com with NetIQ MailMarshal 6.0 Service Pack 1 (v6, 0, 3, 28) id ; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:20:00 +0200 Received: from MWBEXCH.mweb.com ([196.2.141.75]) by mwbfes1.mweb.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:20:00 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:19:59 +0200 Message-ID: <39DC135F7F0571489196E0B6F5D58B4A03B45FC9@MWBEXCH.mweb.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster Thread-Index: Acj20BV5r7qgMt71QwCmmmHI3+awtwAC9zfw References: <4898065A.5080008@powerzone.net.au> From: "Rudi Kramer - MWEB" To: "Michael Christie" , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2008 09:20:00.0454 (UTC) FILETIME=[6F88E660:01C8F6DC] Cc: Subject: RE: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:35:35 -0000 Michael Christie: > I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to > learn. I would like to run some basic services like www and mail on a > test network. I would like to set up the servers so if one server falls > over the other will take over the services automatically, load > balanceing would be good as well. I have googled, I could be looking in > the wrong place , there seems not to be much in regard to seting up > freebsd in a cluster, lots on linux. I have looked at the High > Availability Linux project , I see on the front page that it will run on > freebsd. >=20 > So I am a bit lost and i am wanting to learn how to cluster freebsd web > and mail servers, I have looked at Beowulf clusters, which seem to give > computers more grunt, Can some on on the list please advise me on what > clustering softwhere i need to get started and if the High Availability > Linux project softwhere will do the job. I also did some research a while ago and found Wackamole. It looks pretty interesting as you don't need a central "director" server but all servers in the cluster check each other. It's also in the ports tree :-) Site: http://www.backhand.org/wackamole/=20 Port: /usr/ports/net/wackamole