From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 23 03:56:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29EA106566B for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:56:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hariemani@yahoo.com) Received: from web30906.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30906.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2C838FC2A for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:56:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hariemani@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 85593 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Mar 2009 03:56:46 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1237780606; bh=i/EXalmYs0+o7cZmN2YYj+ZVU/eeFWXVngr4q3Ri4gc=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=w0WNuubE7T4pdzNTC48Z/MeT/dPvVYlrHemGT1KldQmAZwt5eHQ1IIVrNvpwjvjWGdOpOpvJK5CQeYLTByCoL0gdqPER9gqZSdnohKuh1syeRsMWcieWmfJv3yYJD7vY3vq+GH/D22+SFWuiNxRISava1dQprcnprtqi5S2t0JU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=wqvxo9Qh36eBW4Ex0lNxCVh0E33mjtQxicPZQQRjwKwoMH+NyZYLu750Eoa2X3/Ubthfn62KbpFgIMx8mxyt9kOAfc8iol1yxWiYMG57fqgvsVD7/s5xlxwPPWtIXgavPR3PmcuL+1pc/kjW5SSyRWP+eC6rW1Yf1RqL1GMmh0E=; Message-ID: <27821.85381.qm@web30906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: mmmn_wsVM1n7kROyRc41on9b9pfmR3gOdVVu50Cn.2BKMxeddNBsKsMl1sfc3qcoqg1tZNFlwo_WCGUH2dF42LYWY560UZyytj8h6oUju5xdP6GTQxd4bE_NIU_6esAQUeWP9HpYF5q1lIwU4Ewi8R71ehaWx51sYtNUPie0U2K2heRpAeIZXlax_rolcufs2Bt3Vg6D19sX_c_N0U4eSMYEsfi54iw6aQbppcZ6gEY- Received: from [60.54.197.194] by web30906.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:56:45 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/5.1.20 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.1 Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:56:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Hari Emani To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: CARP Load Balance by CUP - Memory - Ethernet Usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:56:47 -0000 Good Day every one! =0A=0AWe have a situation and we are looking for a solu= tion (the=0Aclient is specific to implement this way):=0A=0AWe are using Fr= eeBSD FW cluster (2 units) for our DMZ zone.=0AWe are using CARP for VIP an= d round robin load balance. The=0Aresult is not always balance, most of the= times it is 80/20.=0AWe are looking at the following solution:=0AImplement= a solution that provides LB based on the=0Afollowing factors:=0A=0A1.=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 CPU=0A2.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Memory=0A3.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Et= hernet traffic utilization=0A=0ATheoretically I can think when a packet com= es to FW1, if it is busy (say CPU is 80%) then we need to implement a solut= ion to send the packet to FW2 and vice verse. =0AI heard that some tools ex= ist to complement CARP for this purpose, but could not find at Google. =0A= =0AI would highly appreciate any suggestions on this (or alternate solution= s =E2=80=93 we know we can use LB appliances, but we will have to many of t= hem for several other servers too). =0A=0AI would appreciate your help or a= ny alternate suggestions on how we can achieve this solution (apart from CA= RP). =0A=0A=0AHave lots of fun,=0A =0ASincerely, =0A=0A =0AHari=0A=0A=0A=0A= Bollywood news, movie reviews, film trailers and more! Go to http://i= n.movies.yahoo.com/