[97171] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colm MacCarthaigh)
Mon Jun 4 02:10:51 2007
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 07:03:29 +0100
From: Colm MacCarthaigh <colm@stdlib.net>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: colm@stdlib.net
In-Reply-To: <g3hcpoqvjz.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:53:52AM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> > ipv6 load balancers exist, one's current load balancer is/may probably
> > not be up to the task.
>
> my favourite load balancer is OSPF ECMP, since there are no extra boxes,
> just the routers and switches and hosts i'd have to have anyway.
>
> quagga ospf6d works great, and currently lacks only a health check API.
If you're load-balancing N nodes, and 1 node dies, the distribution hash
is re-calced and TCP sessions to all N are terminated simultaneously.
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Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: colm+pgp@stdlib.net
