Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:40:18 -0500 From: "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org> To: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>, "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Network load balancing hardware ... Message-ID: <NCBBKBDOOHHEJCJHLLPAGEOHHKAA.ler@lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008031534260.497-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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Yes, they can. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of The Hermit Hacker Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 1:36 PM To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network load balancing hardware ... On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> [000803 09:55] wrote: > > > > I need to find a piece of hardware, but for the life of me I can't think > > of the name to search on at someplace like Google ... > > > > Basically, I need a box to sit in front of two boxes that handles > > connections to those two boxes ... if one goes down, the 'frontend' knows > > and only sends requests to the other one ... > > > > Does anyone know *what* I'm talking about, and/or who sells such a beast? > > http://www.alteonwebsystems.com/ > http://www.coyotepoint.com/ > http://www.foundrynet.com/ Anyone used any of these? I'm looking at the Foundry specs, and it comes in an 8port model as their min. Can I config it so that the ports are grouped? So that 4ports are assigned to http traffic, for instance, and 4ports are assigned to imap/pop3? Am still reading through the docs, but figured maybe someone out there has experience with these ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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