[60356] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Server Redundancy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (variable@ednet.co.uk)
Thu Aug 7 07:37:58 2003
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:37:09 +0100 (BST)
From: variable@ednet.co.uk
To: "Austad, Jay" <JAustad@temgweb.com>
Cc: 'Gerald' <gcoon@inch.com>, Jason Greenberg <jg@execulink.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <288FAF5565A1A74EA5E35C39E7EE1D42077FE28B@mail.temgweb.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Austad, Jay wrote:
> As a side note, I've used Cisco's CSS, F5's stuff, Alteon, and Foundry. Out
> of all of them that I've used, the Foundry had the least problems and had a
> nicely structured config.
Foundry seems to be fine for www traffic, but has serious issues with
handling long FTP sessions. FTP works while you're in your stickiness
period (up to 2 hours on the non-XL serveriron), but after that it will
forget which FTP server has the control session and send your next data
session to another server which won't recognise it. Last time I spoke to
Foundry, this was still considered a "feature".
Do other vendors handle this properly?
Rich
