The solaris boxes are doing everything an ISP needs. Web, DNS , POP,
SMTP etc...........
Thorsten pointed me to a good network card
http://www.znyx.com/drivers/os/solaris.htm that does the job. Just
thought you would be able to do it neatly with the built in
cards..............
We are going to use Foundry ServerIron's which seem way better than the
Cisco director..................
Thx f da help.............
-----Original Message-----
From: Sach Jobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 13 July 2001 15:23
To: Thorsten Sideb0ard
Cc: Mike Flynn; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Solaris ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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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