Server Redundancy

Wed Aug 6 17:50:33 UTC 2003

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.