> Miguel Gilly wrote: > > > > Bonsai Studio: Web Design and More > > http://www.bonsai-studio.com > > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > > > Dear Sirs, > > > > I would find it extremely helpful if FreeBSD could offer redundant > > clustering capabilities for ISP applications. > > > > Nowadays I feel that it is a far better choice to choose a x86 Unix cluster > > over the expensive Sun/SGI SMP servers. > > > > I found some affordable tools for Linux, but almost nothing for FreeBSD. I > > feel such an ability would raise the value a lot of FreeBSD. > > Define clustering. If you mean a bunch of boxes that serve up HTTP > requests and the lot of them continue working in the face of a > failure on one, you CAN do this with FreeBSD, and the "Beowulf" > software you're probably thinking of for Linux WILL NOT do this. I have looked into the "Beowulf" system alot recently. It is nothing but a glorified COW design. And it uses "off the shelf" software components that run under FreeBSD as well of better than linux often. I used to thing it was a big deal. Not any more :I This is a tangent though :)
> You do this on FreeBSD (or Linux or Solaris) by creating a "layer 4 > router" or HTTP switch that directs traffic evenly among your several > web servers, and stops sending traffic to servers that have failed. Where could someone find information on setting this up, and what software to use? I have someone who would be very interested in this. Isn't the "layer 4 router" a SPoF though? -- David Cross | email: cro...@cs.rpi.edu Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
