On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 08:48:13PM -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.
>
> 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.
There are various proxies, talking either a specific protocol. Most
should either be able to do failover or be able to be re-configured for
a new host very quickly.
A bit of scripting might glue this all together. Was there a specific
application you were thinking of?
Joachim
