Which product are you referring to as the Cisco Intelligent Director? Are you referring to the CSS series switches or is there some other product with this name? I wasn't able to find it on CCO so I'll assume you mean the CSS switches. We have one in our network but in a fairly simple configuration. It is load balancing between two web servers and a cache engine and it provides failover in case any of the above go down. There are some more details but they'd be hard to describe here. Let's just say that it cleverly handles some issues for us. I absolutely love this box but since I'm relatively new to content delivery networking I guess I can't comment much more than that. HTH, John >>> "Sean Young" 4/16/01 9:17:25 AM >>> My company is in the process of deciding whether to go with Cisco ArrowPoint Intelligent Director (ID) or building our own Linux Virtual Server (LVS). From my limited knowledge, I know that Cisco ID is a load- balanced device and many advanced features. I also have very limited experiences with Cisco ID. Furthermore, I also understand that Cisco ArrowPoint is derived from VXworks (a Unix variant) and the device itself is running on a network appliance box (with 128 MB RAM and an IDE hard- drive). On the other hand, I have quite extensive experience with Linux Virtual Server (LVS). I know that LVS also support many similar advanced features mentioned by Cisco ID (if I am wrong, please correct me). I have deployed LVS in production environment for the past 18 months and the LVS box is solid (never has to reboot once). However, management would like to go with Cisco because it has the name "cisco" on the box. They ask for my recommendations. At the moment, I can NOT recommend Cisco ID because I am not that familiar with the product. Anyone who has deployed Cisco ID on their production network with out breaking the network, I would love to hear from you. Regards, Sean _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=777&t=777 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
