The localdirector is a separate box and doesn't really talk to the 7200. I
have two of them now and they've been working great. We turned them on,
configured them, and forgot about them. That's the upside...they work with
little trouble and if you get two of them the failover works very well. The
only complaint I have about them is they are based on bridging technology so
you can't hide a private network behind them. Rather than setup lots of
individual IP's we decided to go with a port-bound setup.
222.222.222.220:8100 and 222.222.222.221:8100 are mapped to
222.222.222.222:80 so when people try to get to 222.222.222.222:80 it will
redirect the traffic to one of the other ip/port combinations depending on
which algorithm you setup. I would rather have been able to set it up using
an address translation so 10.10.10.1 and 10.10.10.2 mapped to
222.222.222.222 on the outside but it wasn't a really big deal. F5's boxes
act as routers so you can hide whatever you want behind them. The GUI on
the F5 box is a little better as well but I tend to stick to the CLI on the
localdirector anyway so I guess that doesn't matter much.
Cisco has lots of new options for the localdirector technology which include
putting them on blades in the Catalyst 6000's but make sure to check the
feature list before you jump into that. Some things that are available in
the seperate box are available *yet* in the new blades and software
versions.
Overall I'd have to give it a 4 star rating.....the one star taken off for
the GUI, and lack of reporting (outside of the command line 'show' commands)
without additional software. However, it works well....and thats the
important part.
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Olden Pieterse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 6:26 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: 7200 local director
Hi there gang
Can somebody help me with this ?
I need info and as to what local director is for the 7200 .
I checked Cisco's site but did not become any wiser !
Thx
Olden Pieterse
MCP , CCNA , BCMSN , BSCN , BCRAN
Brainbench Certified CISCO Network Implementation Specialist
Technical Consultant
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