[29850] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: LoadBalancing products: Cisco LocalDirector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Sat Jul 8 10:34:38 2000
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From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Stephen Sprunk'" <ssprunk@cisco.com>,
"'Karyn Ulriksen'" <kulriksen@publichost.com>
Cc: "'North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 07:33:36 -0700
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I heard rumor that Cisco was considering including LD capability
in the 6509 MSN router module?
> Stephen Sprunk: Friday, July 07, 2000 5:46 PM
>
> If you are using a LocalDirector with a Cat6k switch, you can
> enable the
> Accelerated Server Load Balancing feature. This allows the
Cat6k to
> forward the bulk of the flow (at wire speed), and lets the LD
focus
> exclusively on the connection setup/teardown functions.
>
> For more information:
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/localdir
> /ld33rns/l
> dicgd/ld3_ch04.htm#xtocid1675521
>
> S
>
> | | Stephen Sprunk, K5SSS, CCIE #3723
> :|: :|: Network Design Consultant, HCOE
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karyn Ulriksen" <kulriksen@publichost.com>
> To: "'Bennett Todd'" <bet@rahul.net>; "Karyn Ulriksen"
> <kulriksen@publichost.com>
> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:40
> Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
>
>
> >
> > A friend of mine was using LD's on his service. They do
> about 180mbps
> over
> > 3 locations and were running performance problems. (They
ended up
> moving to
> > F5's). One of Exodus's Senior Network Engineers has seen
that
> consistenly
> > become problematic at about the magic 80mbps you mentioned.
I spoke
> with a
> > few different neteng buddies when we started looking at LB's
over a
> year ago
> > and they all told me to stay away from the LD's. But like
> all of us,
> they
> > get better as they stay around longer...
> >
> > Probably, it's the same with all LB products ... you have
> to match the
> right
> > products with your needs. Me, I have to go for the big
> scale. So I'll
> > sacrifice features for ability to consistently handle the
> traffic and
> > scalability. I eliminated quite a few simply because they
couldn't
> handle
> > the volume, but that doesn't mean that they would work well
> for a site
> > located in one of the big data centers.
> >
> > -Karyn
>
>
>
