On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:52:07AM -0400, AJ McKee mentioned:
> Yeah I have had a look a linux virtual server before and pirana (which I
> hate) I just cannot get my head around it. Linux virtual server seems
> probally the best but I hope I don't run into many problems when I want a sun
> or a freeBSD box added. The bigest problem fo r me is the many os's to cater
> for.
LVS doesn't care what OS is running on the server machines. All it does
is rewrite the destination addresses, depending on it's simple rules, and
send it on. The Server then sends packets back through the Load Balancer,
which uses Netfilter to masquerade them as itself (so it looks like the
Load Balancer *is* the webserver).
I don't mind giving a talk on all of this at the alternate linux world.
It's simple once you get going...
> Antefacto looks cool BTW and yes Ken it is work related so there "may" be
> cash in it for someone ;-)
Well, it's a year of nine programmers lives, aimed at making load
balancing easy. I'd want to be cool.
Kate
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