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?)