Generic answers to this are only going to be of minor help for you. Knowing more about your specific use cases (particularly, what protocols you're using for authentication) will help a lot.
Also, we don't know your architecture. Unless you have a flat network, a single load-balancer for authentication (typically on the back end) won't help you with web load-balancing (typically on the front end) - unless your LB has a lot of interfaces and you're OK with it straddling your DMZ and internal networks. And, like I said, without knowing what protocols you need, a web LB might not be the right fit for your auth needs. On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Rob Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys. We have some applications here that either can't or can't easily > support connections to redundant servers for authentication, > and another application that has been known to beat the tar out of the > single authentication server it uses. > I was asked to look into it and some talk had came up about looking into a > load balancer for distributing the load, or at least making it so that the > less capable clients can failover to another server. > I'm sure we would find other uses for it besides this, like web > redirection during server outages/maintenance, and possibly distributing > logins to cluster login nodes. > > Right now, our needs are pretty meager. I've started looking at a some > software ones, like balanceNG, HAproxy, to see what they can do. > I've also downloaded a demo of stingray, which used to be known as Zeus. > Coyote point also makes a very inexpensive starter hardware model, $2k > list. > I've got cisco gear in house, but none that seem to support SLB or I would > have looked at that as well. > > Load balancers are a technology that I've never really had a chance to > play with, so I don't really know what to look for and what to avoid. > Can anyone out there provide any insight on products that they have used, > what they have used them for and their experiences? > > Thanks. > > rgt > > Whitehead Network/System Administrator > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa >
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