[SASAG] load-balancing equipment

Joe Sauer jsauer at joesauer.org
Thu Jul 27 15:15:51 PDT 2006


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On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 14:45 -0700, Joe Sauer wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 14:25 -0700, Phil Cordier wrote:
> > But, does not provide stateful failover, as does OpenBSD and CARP with 
> > pfsync.
> 
> It is my understanding it does it just as well. 
> 
> http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.failover.html
> 
> 
> > 
> > Joe Sauer wrote:
> > > http://keepalived.org/
> > >
> > > works great! 
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 17:53 -0700, Cere Davis wrote:
> > >   
> > >> I would just use the OpenBSD packet filter.  You can do
> > >> clustering/failover between routers (lod balancers) using the pfsync
> > >> stuff in OpenBSD.  Not sure about keeping track of up and down
> > >> machines but I am almost sure  you could script this in given the open
> > >> API  OBSD's modified tcpdump binary that contains the traffic tags
> > >> from the bridge interface.  Hardware wise, there's the Big IP stuff
> > >> from F-5.  I have no experience with the hardware but use the OpenBSD
> > >> packet filter and love it. 
> > >>
> > >> -Cere
> > >>
> > >> On 7/22/06, Robin Battey <zanfur at zanfur.com> wrote:
> > >>         I have need for a load balancer that can handle per-connection
> > >>         load
> > >>         balancing for 5000 or so simultaneous connections balanced
> > >>         across 120 or
> > >>         so machines, at a throughput rate of around
> > >>         2Gbps.  Automatically keeping
> > >>         track of which machines are up and which are down is a
> > >>         must.  Bonus points
> > >>         if they can be clustered.
> > >>         
> > >>         Does anyone have any recommendations for hardware that does
> > >>         this?
> > >>         Anyone have any warnings about what *not* to use? 
> > >>         
> > >>         Cheers!
> > >>         -robin
> > >>         
> > >>         
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