On 2006-05-20 20:48:13 -0400, Chad M Stewart wrote: > I worked with a customer once that had a software based load > balancing solution. I liked the way it worked. While I was working > on the box if I was going to take the service down for maintenance I > could tell the local agent and the box was removed from the pool of > servers.
Like Linux with Heartbeat + ldirectord or keepalived? > Anyone know of something like this that runs on OpenBSD? The master > controller part on openbsd would be great, with agents for various > other operating systems as well. carp/pfsync is great, but I'm > thinking of a times when the application that needs to be load > balanced won't run on openbsd, say only on Solaris. http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=17 That talk was about what you're asking for. It ran on FreeBSD using CARP and PF + their own Python app to orchestrate it all, but I'd be surprised if it wouldn't just work on OpenBSD. It's not available yet, but it will be published under an open source license "soon", according to Kostas Zorbadelos who gave the speech. Hope this helps Morten -- http://m.mongers.org/weblog/ -- http://flickr.com/photos/morten_liebach/
