If you go out and spend a few thousand you can also get Allied Telesyn L2-L4 products that now support Load Balancing. Actually the rapier 24i is about $2000 Canadian. (I'd have to check the VAR pricing)
Jason On 6 Aug 2003 at 22:59, Paul Vixie wrote: > > Using outboard appliances for "server load balancing" is unnecessary, > and it adds more powered boxes (thus decreasing theoretical reliability). > > If your upstream router can speak OSPF and is made by either Cisco or > Juniper then it will implement ECMP (equal cost multipath). If you put > your "service address" on lo0 as an alias, and you run Zebra or GateD > on the "service hosts" which possess that alias address, then each such > host will appear to be a router toward the service address as a "stub host" > and your upstream routers will dtrt wrt flow hashing for udp or tcp traffic > (that is, the udp/tcp port number will figure into the hash function, so > you won't multipath your tcp sessions.) > > This is how f-root has worked for years. Look ma, no appliances. > -- > Paul Vixie >