Re: load balancer

["Marcel Hicking" <hicking@du.gtn.com>]

Przemyslaw Wegrzyn <czajnik@tower.t16.ds.pwr.wroc.pl> 16 Mar 2001, at 
10:17:
> On 15 Mar 2001, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > Allen Ahoffman <ahoffman@announce.com> writes:
> > > Is there a distribution that will cheaply replace a load 
balancer?
> > > e.g. for web servers. LVS, ...?
> > 
> > man ipmasqadm ... you'll see this:
> > 
> >        Redirect all web traffic to  internals  hostA  and  hostB,
> >        where  hostB will serve 2 times hostA connections. Forward
> >        rules already masq internal hosts to outside (typical).
> >  
> >               ipchains -I input -p tcp -y -d yours.com/32 80 -m 1
> >               ipmasqadm mfw -I -m 1 -r hostA 80 -p 10 ipmasqadm mfw
> >               -I -m 1 -r hostB 80 -p 20
> > 
> > Voila, load balancer ... any Linux distribution can do this.
> 
> :)) And what about sessions ?

As session data is usually stored in a database,
have the sql server on a separate machine (you 
would anyway if you have enough traffic to need 
a load balancer, wouldn't you?)

Cheers, Marcel