Web Balancing with multicast

2005-11-09 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, is there an application to load balance web traffic using multicast on freebsd ? We have web servers currently running NLB (network load balancing) on windows 2003 that works this way (simplified for clarity): We have server A that listen on ip 10.10.10.11 We have server A that listen

Re: Web Balancing with multicast

2005-11-09 Thread Jon Krause
- Original Message - From: Ian Lord Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:37 PM Subject: Web Balancing with multicast Hi, is there an application to load balance web traffic using multicast on freebsd ? We have web servers currently running NLB (network load balancing

Re: Web Balancing with multicast

2005-11-09 Thread Ian Lord
, 2005 12:37 PM Subject: Web Balancing with multicast Hi, is there an application to load balance web traffic using multicast on freebsd ? We have web servers currently running NLB (network load balancing) on windows 2003 that works this way (simplified for clarity): We have server

Re: Web Balancing with multicast

2005-11-09 Thread Jon Krause
- Original Message - From: Ian Lord To: Jon Krause ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:57 PM Subject: Re: Web Balancing with multicast Thanks for the hint, but this is an active/passive software so only one host can answer request while others wait

Re: Web Balancing with multicast

2005-11-09 Thread Norberto Meijome
Ian Lord wrote: Thanks for the hint, but this is an active/passive software so only one host can answer request while others wait to see if they need to become master (because master has failed) (Ian, please do NOT top post) you may want to look into wackamole, which uses the spread