From owner-freebsd-net Thu May 11 5: 4:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf1.de (mail.Surf1.de [194.25.165.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812ED37B90D for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 05:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from cichlids.com (p3E9C1125.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.156.17.37]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01220; Thu, 11 May 2000 13:02:58 +0200 Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5CC4AC2C; Thu, 11 May 2000 14:09:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA15552; Thu, 11 May 2000 14:04:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:00:25 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Noritoshi Demizu Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: load-balancing over routes and redundancy Message-ID: <20000511140025.B14744@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <20000511111946.A5785@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000511195647O.demizu@dd.iij4u.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000511195647O.demizu@dd.iij4u.or.jp>; from nori-d@is.aist-nara.ac.jp on Thu, May 11, 2000 at 07:56:47PM +0900 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Noritoshi Demizu (nori-d@is.aist-nara.ac.jp): > BTW, I have implemented a load-balancer (or dispatcher) on FreeBSD 3.2R. > It uses "DirectRouting" (see the above page) method and has weighted > round-robin and weighted least-connections. Would you mind explaining me how that works? As far as I understood, the client connects to the virtual IP of the redirctor, which forwards it to a given server. The server itself responses directly to the client with a different source-IP. How can he do this? Does TCP/IP allow this? > I also have implemented a protocol (LASP) to detect up/down of web > servers. LASP is designed with a different concept from NECP Nice. Close to that what I invented last night :-) > I am sorry they are not released yet. Would you mind to release it?-)) Alex -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message