[rescue] web server loadbalancing...

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Just a wild-ass idea, but you could look into hogwash
(http://securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=ids&content=/focus/ids/articles/hogw
ash.html). It was designed to be a packet scrubber, but it might work as a
load balancer. Basically it listens for any packets going to a specific IP
address and scans them before sending them to the webserver.

It sounded like you should be able to do the same thing based on which
machines are up.

As I said, just a wild ass idea.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Bill Bradford
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:47 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] web server loadbalancing...


On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:35:10PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> What about IP Filter?  From ipnat(5):
>   LOAD-BALANCING
>        Two options for use with  rdr  are  available  to  support
>        primitive,  round-robin  based  load balancing.  The first
>        option allows for a rdr to specify a  second  destination,
>        as follows:

Already looked at it.  No reliable way to eliminate a system from the
"pool" if one goes down.

Bill

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