[60363] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Server Redundancy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Mills)
Thu Aug 7 11:29:55 2003
From: Don Mills <drm2@dss.state.va.us>
Reply-To: drm2@dss.state.va.us
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:29:14 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
We've been using the Linux Virtual Server project (which a previous poste=
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mentioned) to do load balancing (locally) on web based apps, pop3, smtp a=
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now iptable firewalls. It scales well, has multiple lb algorithms (wlc, =
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lc, wrr, etc.) and even multicasts out the connection info if you want so=
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can set up a bank of redundant lb's. It can work w/ NAT or ip tunneling =
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direct routing so it might be able to do global load balancing depending =
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the setup. We have a 10000+ user mail farm behind one and haven't seen a=
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single hiccup...=20
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
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Don Mills
