Miguel Gilly wrote:
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> Dear Sirs,
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> I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant
> clustering capabilities for ISP applications.
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> Nowadays I feel that it is a far better choice to choose a x86 Unix cluster
> over the expensive Sun/SGI SMP servers.
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> I found some affordable tools for Linux, but almost nothing for FreeBSD. I
> feel such an ability would raise the value a lot of FreeBSD.
Define clustering. If you mean a bunch of boxes that serve up HTTP
requests and the lot of them continue working in the face of a
failure on one, you CAN do this with FreeBSD, and the "Beowulf"
software you're probably thinking of for Linux WILL NOT do this.
You do this on FreeBSD (or Linux or Solaris) by creating a "layer 4
router" or HTTP switch that directs traffic evenly among your several
web servers, and stops sending traffic to servers that have failed.
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