Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:26:35 -0500 From: Michael Conlen <m@obmail.net> To: Nick Pavlica <linicks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load Balanceing Recommendations Message-ID: <8919e0a90e6eab39103956a670200da1@obmail.net> In-Reply-To: <dc9ba044050131141116fd00cd@mail.gmail.com> References: <dc9ba044050131141116fd00cd@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 31, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Nick Pavlica wrote: > All, > I have been searching for a load balancing tool/method for managing > the traffic going to my web servers(http(s)). I have found a number > of tools/methods out there, but haven't found any that stand out as > the "Common Solution" to this task on FreeBSD (I may be overlooking > the obvious :)). I'm currently testing on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.3 on > x86. > > - What method/tool do you use or recommend based on your production > experience? I've used two methods that have worked well. One is to use a FreeBSD or OpenBSD as a router and use PF to do the load balancing. The downside with this method is that it doesn't sense when a server is down and remove it from the pool of servers. I also haven't done weighted load balancing with this method so I can't evaluate it. The second method I've used is using a Foundry switch with a load balancer built in to it. This is nice when 1) you don't want to use a FreeBSD or OpenBSD system as a router and 2) you want it to do health checks to remove a down system from the pool automatically. It works really well, the downside being the cost. -- Michael Conlen
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