Multi-gigabit edge devices as CPE [TOPIC DRIFT!]
Baldur Norddahl
baldur.norddahl at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 20:27:28 UTC 2015
There is no redirecting as all the hosts have the same IP (typically on the
loopback interface). Traffic goes back directly. You can even do priority
but I would not. You get host down detection as the route will be withdrawn.
You do not get server overload. On the other hand I am not sure I want such
feature.
I would use it to load balance the load balancers / web cache / ssl proxy
and it should be quite good for that purpose.
Regards
Baldur
Den 09/04/2015 21.48 skrev "Barry Shein" <bzs at world.std.com>:
>
> On April 9, 2015 at 20:50 baldur.norddahl at gmail.com (Baldur Norddahl)
> wrote:
> > You can do this for free with equal cost multi path routing. You
> announce
> > the same IP from multiple servers with eg. OSPF.
>
> True, and thanks, but that's just the beginning of an implementation,
> you still need all the gunk that detects and reacts to down or
> overloaded hosts, whether you want to do MAC or IP level redirecting,
> how data travels back to the remote host (directly or via the box's
> IP, NAT-like?), priority management, firewall functions, statistics
> gathering, blame apportionment (if I build it myself who do I get to
> blame?), etc.
>
> -b
>
> > Den 09/04/2015 19.34 skrev "Barry Shein" <bzs at world.std.com>:
> >
> > >
> > > On April 9, 2015 at 09:11 raphael.timothy at gmail.com (Tim Raphael)
> wrote:
> > > > VyOS is a community fork of Vyatta and is still being developed
> very
> > > actively and it pushing ahead with many new features! It's pretty
> stable
> > > too imo.
> > > >
> > > > http://vyos.net/wiki/Main_Page
> > >
> > > SPEAKING of OSS routers...
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a single OSS project which supports the usual BGP
> > > etc kind of things (routing) AND virtual hosting, the terminology is
> > > muddled, but one IP in, chooses among one or more IPs for
> > > load-balancing (not to be confused with device load-balancing),
> > > fail-over, round-robin, other policies? The typical web farm kind of
> > > thing, but for other kinds of services also like mail, imap, etc.
> > >
> > > I know one can piece together more than one project but then one has
> > > to get them to play together and learn their quirks and so forth. For
> > > example I don't think any Mikrotik (ok not strictly OSS but they seem
> > > nice) supports the virtual host stuff unless I'm missing it.
> > >
> > > I have some very old Alteons that do the virtual host stuff well
> > > enough but they are very long in the tooth (no IPv6, BGP is so old
> > > it's useless to the point of scary, etc.)
> > >
> > > P.S. No particular need for fancy WAN interfaces, ethernet
> > > presentations are fine.
> > >
> > > --
> > > -Barry Shein
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