> > but, if you want IMP to scale with COTS (commodity-off-the-shelf) hardware
> > an IMP farm can be used. then a HTTP redirector, web accelerator(squid) or
> > DNS round-robin can be use to throw the users to a different IMP machine.
> > this would probably scale better.
>
> Buy a $10,000 load balancing switch? Hehe not.
>
hehehe. does the cisco redirector cost that much. wow.
what about URL rewriting instead? for example: mail.example.com will
rewrite the address to either mail1.example.com or mail2.example.com?
> But we need to maintain state. You can't have the squid redirector direct
> the user to different IMP machines. If it uses cookies, squid will have
> to watch those. I don't know if anyone is working on giving squid the
> functionality of say, F5 BigIP, even if those boxes are PC hardware.
>
> squid code is tough. are you up to it? :)
>
not quite. i have seen it. it is not exactly pretty code. and it would be
a pain to catch up on it. maybe just recommend it to the current
developers and add it to the squid wish-list.
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