I guess i depends on what the servers are being used for but, don't use
usually use some sort of front-ending sort of box (ala cisco
localdirector) to handle this sort of thing.
What are the solaris boxes doing?
sach
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Thorsten Sideb0ard wrote:
>
> Sitting in a little Internet cafe i Barcelona at the moment,
> so i can't do too much research.
>
> Mostly when i've read up on load balancing on the servers,
> all the solutions have been slightly dodgy.
>
> i think you have three options,
> a simple script that checks the state of each interface and changes route
> just using ifconfig would be your lo-fi method, probably not what your
> looking for.
>
> A routing protocol, probably gated. Don't know too much about using this,
> but from what i've read i think it could do the job.
>
> and i believe there are various hardware solutions.
> One that looks good is
> http://www.znyx.com/drivers/os/solaris.htm
> provides "
> link aggregation (for greater overall network throughput)
> fast failover (automatic link failure detection/correction)
> automatic load balancing (improve network efficiency) "
>
>
> Is this for web servers at all?
> There are a few things aimed specifically at load balancing web sites.
> Oh, my time is running out, gotta dash.
>
> Mail me off list with your current phone number and i'll give ya a call as
> well, tell you the story behind the barcelona trip!
>
> later,
> thor
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Mike Flynn wrote:
>
> > Thor
> >
> > How ya doing man? Long time no hear. Got a new job at ISP running
> > network..... The server guys
> > Need some help buddie.... we got some solaris issue with connecting
> > solaris 2.6,2.7, or 2.8 to 2 different catalysts.
> >
> > We want redundancy and would like both links to the different cat's live
> > at the same time and to provide fail over in the event of either cat
> > loss or link loss. The Sun's just seem to use one link by default and
> > won't use secondary in the event of failure......
> >
> > Have changed the local_mac_address in the EEPROM to get unique MAC's on
> > different interfaces.........
> >
> > Anyone done this?????????????????????????????????????????
> >
>
>
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