From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 18:34:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15584 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 18:34:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15489 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 18:34:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA04726; Tue, 12 May 1998 18:24:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd004718; Wed May 13 01:24:49 1998 Message-ID: <3558F65C.7A5F06AF@whistle.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 18:24:44 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Pawlak CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server Load Balancing References: <199805121950160042.002AC954@mailgate.execpc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Frank Pawlak wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a question that I think will require a server load balancing configuration. The client wants to use Linux, but am trying to convince them to use FreeBSD. I am not sure how to design this setup to achieve the desired results. > > The client wants to build a redundant Linux Internet solution. It is an auction site that is currently running on one server. They want to build a second one. They do not want the new machine sitting around waiting for the primary to fail (which eliminates mirroring). They want some sort of load balancing when both machines are up. They want the ability to take a machine off-line for maintenance without affecting on-line users. If one of the machines would experience a failure, they want t > > Frank > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message This sort of thing required (to some extent) that the application knows about it.. how much control do you have over the application? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message