On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:51:33 +0000, "Miguel Gilly" <[email protected]> said: Miguel> I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer Miguel> redundant clustering capabilities for ISP applications.
Miguel> Nowadays I feel that it is a far better choice to choose a x86 Miguel> Unix cluster over the expensive Sun/SGI SMP servers. Miguel> I found some affordable tools for Linux, but almost nothing Miguel> for FreeBSD. I feel such an ability would raise the value a Miguel> lot of FreeBSD. If you're talking true close-coupled clustering, my reply's not gonna help :-( If you're talking about web-type servers, read on... Have you checked www.EddieWare.org? It's a (web) load balancer and dynamic DNS, performing somewhat similar functions to commercial products from RND Networks, F5 Labs, Foundry, IPivot, Alteon, etc. Runs on Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, and recently <gag> NT </gag>. I'm just getting into it now, as the F5 folks want an absurd $27K for a single dynamic DNS (two required), and I think their $15K each balancers are a bit high, since it's SW running on BSDI boxes (previously FreeBSD!) running on commodity hardware. I'm not saying the boxes aren't worth it -- what I've seen works great, has a command line interface, seems secure, and even the GUI's good. But I think the Eddie project on FreeBSD would give you 90% of that -- open source. My big thing these days is fault tolerance: at the server level, at the (web) farm level, and at the colo/datacenter level. If I can get that then I can sleep easy while the back-hoes do their work... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
