[29792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [load balancing] Re: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tony bourke)
Fri Jul 7 05:51:31 2000
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 05:46:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: tony bourke <tony@vegan.net>
To: "'lb-l@vegan.net'" <lb-l@vegan.net>
Cc: Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen@publichost.com>,
"'Sutantyo, Danny'" <danny.sutantyo@intel.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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couple of drawbacks to the LD that other products do not suffer from:
* lack of cookie-based persistance support
* only works when servers and LB instance are on the same subnet (having
them on different subnets would have the LB acting as a router which is
great for packet filtering)
* lack of any other Layer 5 functionality
* is a server-based LB (If you pop one open, you'll see a pentium chip
inside) rather than ASIC based
Tony
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000,
Dru Nelson wrote:
>
> I'm unhappy with the local director. The fact that it cannot route
> is a major disappointment (it is more of a switch than a router).
>
> Dru Nelson
> San Mateo, California
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Alberto Begliomini wrote:
>
> > It depends which Local Director. The 430 is screaming fast and the 416
> > in conjunction with a 6509 and ASLB is very fast too. I have been using
> > both solutions at customers sites with peak traffic of around a million
> > hits per day.
> >
> > --
> > Alberto U. Begliomini Email: aub@coldstone.com
> > Coldstone Consulting, LLC Phone: 650-400-3990
> > Security, Data Centers Design and Management Fax: 650-654-5938
> >
> >
> > Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> > >
> > > > How about Local Director?
> > >
> > > Everyone I've spoke to about LD is very unhappy with it's performance.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Richard Colella [mailto:colella@aol.net]
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:38 AM
> > > To: nanog@merit.edu
> > > Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
> > >
> > > Products are also available from Alteon, Cisco (Distributed
> > > Director) and Resonate. Last time I looked, none of these
> > > products does everything one wants, IMHO, but the set union
> > > of features comes pretty close.
> > >
> > > --Richard
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I believe BigIP has a product called DNS3 that serves a similar function.
> > > > One of our ".com's" uses it to support their dual co-lo set-up.
> > > >
> > > > -TY
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Brantley Jones [mailto:bjones@redundant.net]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:06 PM
> > > > To: nanog@merit.edu
> > > > Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > At 09:28 PM 7/5/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >they also have the dns based solution
> > > > >available on serverirons.
> > > > >--
> > > > >dima.
> > > >
> > > > Speaking of using a DNS proxy, does anybody know of anybody else doing
> > > this
> > > > besides Foundry??
> > > >
> > > > Brantley
> > > >
> > > >
> >
>
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