I plan on doing a pretty thourough test as soon as I get access to the box we will be using. Currently our network specialists are working to get the front end Alteon load balancers working properly. We've been hampered by a number of linux network issues that may yet take some time to resolve.
Jeffrey Burgoyne Chief Technology Architect KCSI Keenuh Consulting Services Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Graham Leggett wrote: > Jeffrey Burgoyne wrote: > > > The first one is this method as prescribed above does not seem to have a > > failover mechanism, i.e. if connection to one server fails, then the next > > in line is tried. This is quite important for mission critical > > installations. > > > The second is that while pure randomness is better than nothing, some > > weighting system has significant advantages. The first one, from my > > perspective, is the ability to define a back end primary and secondary > > service. For example, if I could weight one server at 100 and another at > > 0, then the primary server would always be called, unless it went down and > > then the secondary server would be called. > > In theory the proxy balancer should do the above for you. Can you give > the new httpd v2.1 proxy code a test to see if it works? > > Regards, > Graham > -- >
