North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [load balancing] Re: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
couple of drawbacks to the LD that other products do not suffer from: * lack of cookie-based persistance support * only works when servers and LB instance are on the same subnet (having them on different subnets would have the LB acting as a router which is great for packet filtering) * lack of any other Layer 5 functionality * is a server-based LB (If you pop one open, you'll see a pentium chip inside) rather than ASIC based Tony On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Dru Nelson wrote: > > I'm unhappy with the local director. The fact that it cannot route > is a major disappointment (it is more of a switch than a router). > > Dru Nelson > San Mateo, California > > > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Alberto Begliomini wrote: > > > It depends which Local Director. The 430 is screaming fast and the 416 > > in conjunction with a 6509 and ASLB is very fast too. I have been using > > both solutions at customers sites with peak traffic of around a million > > hits per day. > > > > -- > > Alberto U. Begliomini Email: [email protected] > > Coldstone Consulting, LLC Phone: 650-400-3990 > > Security, Data Centers Design and Management Fax: 650-654-5938 > > > > > > Karyn Ulriksen wrote: > > > > > > > How about Local Director? > > > > > > Everyone I've spoke to about LD is very unhappy with it's performance. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Richard Colella [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:38 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron > > > > > > Products are also available from Alteon, Cisco (Distributed > > > Director) and Resonate. Last time I looked, none of these > > > products does everything one wants, IMHO, but the set union > > > of features comes pretty close. > > > > > > --Richard > > > > > > > > > > > I believe BigIP has a product called DNS3 that serves a similar function. > > > > One of our ".com's" uses it to support their dual co-lo set-up. > > > > > > > > -TY > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Brantley Jones [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:06 PM > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > At 09:28 PM 7/5/2000 -0400, you wrote: > > > > > > > > >they also have the dns based solution > > > > >available on serverirons. > > > > >-- > > > > >dima. > > > > > > > > Speaking of using a DNS proxy, does anybody know of anybody else doing > > > this > > > > besides Foundry?? > > > > > > > > Brantley > > > > > > > > > > > -------------- -- ---- ---- --- - - - - - -- - - - - - - Tony Bourke [email protected] |