North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: LoadBalancing products: Cisco LocalDirector
I heard rumor that Cisco was considering including LD capability in the 6509 MSN router module? > Stephen Sprunk: Friday, July 07, 2000 5:46 PM > > If you are using a LocalDirector with a Cat6k switch, you can > enable the > Accelerated Server Load Balancing feature. This allows the Cat6k to > forward the bulk of the flow (at wire speed), and lets the LD focus > exclusively on the connection setup/teardown functions. > > For more information: > http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/localdir > /ld33rns/l > dicgd/ld3_ch04.htm#xtocid1675521 > > S > > | | Stephen Sprunk, K5SSS, CCIE #3723 > :|: :|: Network Design Consultant, HCOE > :|||: :|||: 14875 Landmark Blvd #400; Dallas, TX > .:|||||||:..:|||||||:. Email: [email protected] > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karyn Ulriksen" <[email protected]> > To: "'Bennett Todd'" <[email protected]>; "Karyn Ulriksen" > <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:40 > Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron > > > > > > A friend of mine was using LD's on his service. They do > about 180mbps > over > > 3 locations and were running performance problems. (They ended up > moving to > > F5's). One of Exodus's Senior Network Engineers has seen that > consistenly > > become problematic at about the magic 80mbps you mentioned. I spoke > with a > > few different neteng buddies when we started looking at LB's over a > year ago > > and they all told me to stay away from the LD's. But like > all of us, > they > > get better as they stay around longer... > > > > Probably, it's the same with all LB products ... you have > to match the > right > > products with your needs. Me, I have to go for the big > scale. So I'll > > sacrifice features for ability to consistently handle the > traffic and > > scalability. I eliminated quite a few simply because they couldn't > handle > > the volume, but that doesn't mean that they would work well > for a site > > located in one of the big data centers. > > > > -Karyn > > >
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