--- Greg Reinacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I know of many web farms that are load balanced with NLB. There > isn't any gathering of performance information with NLB, although as you > mention the software algorithm does take a small amount of overhead. And > we've seen in a lab that you don't really want to go over about 6 nodes in > one cluster with NLB. Although using hardware to balance between multiple > 6-node clusters is certainly acceptable.
NLB is also good way to get higher availability cheaply. > You have to be careful about your network architecture as well, to ensure > you allow bandwidth for "broadcasting" requests across the cluster. I must admit ignorance to the under-the-hood mechanics of NLB. How does it distribute the requests? Do all packets get redirected through the load balancing server? Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
