I discovered an article this morning that has some links to clustering tools that will run on FreeBSD.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pow-opcluster/?-pa-ca=dgr-lnxw07Clustering I also saw the tool dns_balance: http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/ports.php?c=dns&n=dns_balance --Nick On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:26:35 -0500, Michael Conlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 31, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Nick Pavlica wrote: > > > All, > > I have been searching for a load balancing tool/method for managing > > the traffic going to my web servers(http(s)). I have found a number > > of tools/methods out there, but haven't found any that stand out as > > the "Common Solution" to this task on FreeBSD (I may be overlooking > > the obvious :)). I'm currently testing on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.3 on > > x86. > > > > - What method/tool do you use or recommend based on your production > > experience? > > I've used two methods that have worked well. One is to use a FreeBSD or > OpenBSD as a router and use PF to do the load balancing. The downside > with this method is that it doesn't sense when a server is down and > remove it from the pool of servers. I also haven't done weighted load > balancing with this method so I can't evaluate it. > > The second method I've used is using a Foundry switch with a load > balancer built in to it. This is nice when 1) you don't want to use a > FreeBSD or OpenBSD system as a router and 2) you want it to do health > checks to remove a down system from the pool automatically. It works > really well, the downside being the cost. > > -- > Michael Conlen > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
