[NTLUG:Discuss] Load/Network Balancing NICs?

[Scott Womer]

Yes...  clustering is definately the answer for the web servers, I was on
the TurboCluster beta team for about a year, I've tested HA, LVS, and
Piranha... I'm currently leaning towards Piranha which is basically LVS with
a management console added to it.

But...  my dilemma is the dual ISPs....  in essense I need to cluster two
networks that are connected to two different providers with different
networks and subnets.  Maybe I'm missing some simple concept and the two
networks aren't really an issue, but right now... I can't see the answer.



Thanks,
Scott Womer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Cox" <cjcox at acm.org>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Load/Network Balancing NICs?


> 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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