[60324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Server Redundancy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Dixon)
Wed Aug 6 13:52:27 2003
From: Jason Dixon <jason@dixongroup.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308061337020.23657-100000@ns1.vbind.com>
Date: 06 Aug 2003 13:50:33 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:39, Allan Liska wrote:
> On 6 Aug 2003, Jason Greenberg wrote:
> >
> > Can I have some suggestions on how to load balance servers that are on
> > seperate IP blocks? Is there any way to perform translation at this
> > level? Exclude DNS based balancing please...
> >
>
> Take a look at Nortel's Alteon product line, Cisco's CSS product line, or
> F5's BigIP Product Line. All of which have Global Server Load Balancing
> capability. The GSLB can be done a number of different ways on these
> boxes including stupid DNS tricks (not your typical round robin stuff, but
> still DNS) and using a BGP configuration.
I second this suggestion. I worked briefly at F5 Networks in 2001 and
was responsible for supporting Big-IP and 3DNS. Both are very nice
products, but NOT cheap.
-J.
