NLB Recommendations

Tue Jun 8 23:40:27 UTC 2004

	Depending on the features you need and you price point; the
Cisco CSM for the 6500 works great and should scale quite well but is
quite pricey.  If you are looking for something smaller you could use
the Cisco CSS 11500; the CSS works well since the software has been
upgraded and has far lower price then the CSM.  I personally have not
had any wide spread experience with the F5 and Foundry equipment.

Chris Burton
Network Engineer
Walt Disney Internet Group: Network Services

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
James Baldwin
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 4:33 PM
To: North American Network Operators Group
Subject: NLB Recommendations

I'm looking for recommendations for network load balancers. These, at 
this time, will primarily be used to attach to a cluster of webservers 
although I would like a solution which can be repurposed to other 
applications later. I am looking at F5's Big IP, Cisco's SLB, and 
Foundry's ServerIron at this time.