[NTLUG:Discuss] Load/Network Balancing NICs?

[Chris Cox]

Clustering is the right answer here.... I will throw out
Mosix as something to look at:
http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/txt_main.html

Scott Womer 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
> 
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