[NTLUG:Discuss] Load/Network Balancing NICs?

[Tom McDonald]

On Tuesday 13 March 2001 20:00, you wrote:
> Hiya Peoples!
>
> I'm building up what will become a mission-critical web site at my company.
> I'm setting up a fault tolerant infrastructure, dual ISPs, dual routers,
> dual firewalls, dual switches and clustered web servers.  I know I can use
> simple round-robin DNS to mathmatically balance the load across ISP
> networks and web servers, but what I'd like to be able to do is take
> advantage of the available fault tolerance of the ISP networks, meaning...
> if one ISP goes down, or even a router or firewall, etc... etc... and be
> able to
> automatically redistribute the load to the available connection.
>
> I know there's hardware out there to accomplish this, but I'd prefer to
> provide a linux solution.
>
> Any ideas?  Known solutions?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Womer
>

You might also want to check out e-smith, and I believe both Caldera and 
Redhat have a solution to load balancing.


Tom

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