On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:47:27PM -0400, Dave Wreski wrote:
> > Yes, I'm actually suprised to see M$ using round-robin for their boxes.
> > You'd think they'd use something like Cisco's Local Director provide real
> > load balancing and failover...
>
> That wont work for locally distributed server farms, since the redirector
> box is a single point of failure. Using round-robin to multiple local
> redirectors is better for distributing the load over differen tproviders.
Local Director wasn't targeted at that market, for that, Cisco makes
Distributed Director.
Paul "I don't work or speak for Cisco" Robertson
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