[60328] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Server Redundancy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Dills)
Wed Aug 6 14:23:46 2003
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:23:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To: Gerald <gcoon@inch.com>
Cc: Jason Greenberg <jg@execulink.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030806135846.Q88392@kod.inch.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Gerald wrote:
>
> On Wed, 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...
>
> vrrp on FreeBSD is supposed to be a free solution to allow machines to
> watch each other and take over IP addressing if connectivity is lost.
> Depending on how remote your IP blocks are and how much control you have
> over the routing equipment in between, your only choice may be a
> commercial solution.
Don't forget pen, which runs on FreeBSD (and even NT according to the
author).
http://siag.nu/pen/
It's not for the enterprise, but does provide simple load-balancing for
people who can't afford a proper switch.
Andy
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Andy Dills
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www.xecu.net
301-682-9972
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