Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Philippe LAQUET
"The master of the address sends out CARP advertisement messages via multicast using the CARP protocol (IP Protocol 112) on a regular basis, and the backup hosts listen for this advertisement. If the advertisements stop, the backup hosts will begin advertising." I'm afraid CARP will not be ro

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Philippe LAQUET
You can also take a look on LVS/IPVS... http://kb.linuxvirtualserver.org/wiki/LVS/TUN_mode_with_FreeBSD_and_Solaris_realserver The software is also available for FreeBSD and works on WAN architectures. I didn't test it yet but used sucessfully on Lin boxes. Hope this helps... Philippe LAQUET

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Jakubik
Max Laier wrote: On Wednesday 30 August 2006 18:52, Mike Jakubik wrote: Max Laier wrote: Have a look at: http://www.countersiege.com/doc/pfsync-carp/#big for one idea. All requirements (carp, pf and pfsync) are available in FreeBSD as well. You can load balance with CARP, but A

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Max Laier
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 18:52, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Max Laier wrote: > > Have a look at: http://www.countersiege.com/doc/pfsync-carp/#big for > > one idea. All requirements (carp, pf and pfsync) are available in > > FreeBSD as well. > > You can load balance with CARP, but AFAIK it only works

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Jakubik
Max Laier wrote: Have a look at: http://www.countersiege.com/doc/pfsync-carp/#big for one idea. All requirements (carp, pf and pfsync) are available in FreeBSD as well. You can load balance with CARP, but AFAIK it only works on the local network segment, i.e. it wont work past a router.

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 04:22:54PM +0200, Max Laier wrote: M> > > I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to M> > > load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat M> > > (slow java stuff). Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a M> > > certain server

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Max Laier
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 15:26, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Baldur Gislason (baldur) writes: > > I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to > > load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat > > (slow java stuff). Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Vince
Phil Regnauld wrote: > Baldur Gislason (baldur) writes: >> I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to >> load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat (slow java >> stuff). >> Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a certain server and keep >> that

Re: Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Phil Regnauld
Baldur Gislason (baldur) writes: > I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to > load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat (slow java > stuff). > Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a certain server and keep > that > mapping throughout the ent

Load balancing for web servers

2006-08-30 Thread Baldur Gislason
I'd like to set up a load balancing and resiliance system to load balance between a bunch of web servers running Apache tomcat (slow java stuff). Ideally I'd like each client IP to get mapped to a certain server and keep that mapping throughout the entire session. I'd also like to have some means