Przemyslaw Wegrzyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16 Mar 2001, at 10:17: > On 15 Mar 2001, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > Allen Ahoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a distribution that will cheaply replace a load balancer? > > > e.g. for web servers. LVS, ...? > > > > man ipmasqadm ... you'll see this: > > > > Redirect all web traffic to internals hostA and hostB, > > where hostB will serve 2 times hostA connections. Forward > > rules already masq internal hosts to outside (typical). > > > > ipchains -I input -p tcp -y -d yours.com/32 80 -m 1 > > ipmasqadm mfw -I -m 1 -r hostA 80 -p 10 ipmasqadm mfw > > -I -m 1 -r hostB 80 -p 20 > > > > Voila, load balancer ... any Linux distribution can do this. > > :)) And what about sessions ?
As session data is usually stored in a database, have the sql server on a separate machine (you would anyway if you have enough traffic to need a load balancer, wouldn't you?) Cheers, Marcel