> You might want to try a hardware based balancer. Something like Local Director.
Cisco bought Arrowpoint last year or so. I had the pleasure to play with their CSS-11000 and it kicks ass! The Local Director never was a good load balancer, it was more of a intellingent routing switch doing load balancing. You can achieve the same kind of thing with Foundry NetIrons and the like. The CSS-11000 on the other hand is a real layer 4 switch. It can do all sorts of things that makes it compete with big names like F-5 Big IP and the Web Director. If you are considering getting a load balancer from Cisco, go for the CSS family. my $0.02 Haim. -- Whatthehellhashappenedtomydamnspacebar?!?!?