From: Fergal Daly (fergal at domain esatclear.ie)
Date: Thu 25 Oct 2001 - 12:32:51 IST
The IPVS comes with Mandrake 8.1. I haven't tried it but it's there,
Fergal
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:34:00AM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:28:47AM -0400, AJ McKee mentioned:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Hope everyone is well.
> >
> > OK I was wondering what are the alternative to round robin DNS as a method of
> > load balancing a web server. I have done a nice google and the results all
> > seem to be indicating a third party "box".
> >
> > However is there any open source or method of configuring linux to act as a
> > cluster management server and hece forward all request between various
> > machines with different operating systems but all running web servers?
>
> There certainly are many ways of doing it. Us at antefacto sell a really
> cute box, based around linux & various open source software tools to do
> load balancing (and a few other things besides). Checkout the website.
>
> However, if you don't have the budget, and have the time on your hands,
> you can look at www.linuxvirtualserver.org, where you can download the
> "ipvs" patches to linux. This will allow you to setup a linux box as a
> load balancer. However, it should be pointed out that this software can't
> be installed on the webservers themselves - you need a dedicated machine
> to be between the service users, and the servers.
>
> You need a "monitoring" application to pool webservers ever few seconds,
> to make sure that they are still alive (and worth forwarding requests
> onto). I think www.linuxvirtualserver.org recommends "mon" (we thought it
> was cack, and wrote our own).
>
> I've had no problem load balancing between a windows machine running IIS
> or apache, and a linux/apache box.
>
> John
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