Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 22:08:17 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Load balancing Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981006220817.00f7f3d4@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981006222923.009d2330@stingray.ivision.co.uk>
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At 10:29 PM 10/6/98 +0100, Manar Hussain wrote: > >The really cute way to do this is with a layer 4 switch ... something like >an alteon @10k odd + so it needs to be a serious solution requirement. The >switch itself has the ip address that is publically accessed and behind it >sits a network with it's on set of ip addresses etc. The switch farms out >the traffic as required in a pretty clever way, including tracking >sessions, having load balancing ruels, making sure the servers are up with >both pings and response checks on port 80 blah blah. Just what is meant by layer4 vs layer 3 or layer 2 switching, the last being most common. Not sure if they count up or down (up? from hardware level). What you suggest guarntee's a better balance than distributed DNS. Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking jeff@mountin.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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