/8 end user assignment?

Fri Aug 5 09:05:58 UTC 2005

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Andy Davidson wrote:

>
> Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>> will the v6 access really be enough to require LB's? or are they there for
>> other reasons (global lb for content close to customers, regionalized
>> content) perhaps reasons which would matter 'less' in an initial v6 world
>> where you were getting the lb's fixed by their vendor? (or finding a
>> vendor that supports v6 lb?)
>
> I am a keyboard jockey for an international online retailer; I picked our 
> loadbalancer solution[0] because of the things it did other than balancing 
> load per se, including cacheing, tcp and ssl session offloading, and content 
> compression.  Yes, you could do much of this with apache/mod_proxy but not 
> 'as well'.
>
> Until such devices support IPv6, to reiterate Steve's point, it's not an 
> option to consider approaching connectivity suppliers with IPv6 enquiries.

LVS which rather a lot of people use for load balancing supports ipv6 and 
has since 2002

PLB pure load balancer (*BSD) supports ipv6.

Since Redhat Enterprise Server currently meets all of our layer-3 load 
balancing needs we haven't evaluated other commercial load balancers in 
about a year.

>
> [0] Redline Networks E|X, now owned by Juniper of Borg.
>
> -a
>

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