The only problem with Round Robin load balancing is
stickiness... What happens when you load something in
a shopping cart and the secure server goes belly up
and another one takes over.. Do you
re-authenticate...?
Robert
--- "Christopher Adams, Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I have not been able to read all of the opinions on
> this subject. I think people are expending too much
> effort to something that is easily achieved. I also
> hope that I am interpreting the original question
> correctly.
>
> 'Load Balancing' is a difficult objective. How about
> just distributing requests across multiple
> firewalls. It is not very scientific but it is
> effective. I recommend using something that is
> commonly referred to as, 'round-robin DNS'.
>
> In your DNS, create 'A' records for each firewall.
> Then create several 'CNAME' records with one alias
> that point to each of your 'A' records. Then aim all
> interested parties to the CNAME. The result should
> be that every resolution of the same DNS query will
> result in adifferent one of your firewalls. This
> doesn't try to balance the load but it does
> distribute connections/processes.
>
> Perhaps this is too simple!
>
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