Re: External Load Balancing

[David Lang <dlang () digitalinsight com>]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Richard St John wrote:

> Good morning list,
>
> We are currently running in an outbound load balanced setup. A packet
> from inside has a one in four chance of hitting a specific firewall.
>
> We are beginning to look at load balancing the external side of our
> network so that a packet from the outside has a one in four chance of
> hitting a specific firewall.
>
> A quick search of the internet turned up:
>
> Resonate Central Dispatch
> Radware Web Server Director
> Alteon ACE director 2
> F5 Big/ip
> Coyote Point Equalizer E250
> Holon Tech Hyper Flow 2
> IBM WebSphere Perf. Pack
> Hydra Web Hydra
> Ipivot Intelligent Broker 4000

you may also want to evaluate the linux LVS option. I haven't used it yet 
so I can't say much about it other than it exists. (trying to get time to 
evealuate it myself)

David Lang
--
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no 
deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
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