On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:00:20PM -0700, Andrew Ng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as noted in the FAQ - "it's not expected that you will achieve perfect
> 50/50 distribution between the two machines", wonder if there any
> way(software, configuration, hardware etc) to be able control the
> distribution for CARP? Even/control-able distribution is important for
> me as the resources(bandwidth, CPU, diskspace etc) allocated would not
> substain heavy load.
ISTR that CARP uses some sort of hash table to determine which
router/server gets which client. This would not make manual distribution
easy, though you could of course shift whatever is used in the hash
table (MAC?) until it 'works'.
Joachim
