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On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:39, Allan Liska wrote: > On 6 Aug 2003, Jason Greenberg wrote: > > > > Can I have some suggestions on how to load balance servers that are on > > seperate IP blocks? Is there any way to perform translation at this > > level? Exclude DNS based balancing please... > > > > Take a look at Nortel's Alteon product line, Cisco's CSS product line, or > F5's BigIP Product Line. All of which have Global Server Load Balancing > capability. The GSLB can be done a number of different ways on these > boxes including stupid DNS tricks (not your typical round robin stuff, but > still DNS) and using a BGP configuration. I second this suggestion. I worked briefly at F5 Networks in 2001 and was responsible for supporting Big-IP and 3DNS. Both are very nice products, but NOT cheap. -J.
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