LoadBalancer With FreeBSD

[Eric Anderson]

Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:
> Hi Everybody , 
>  
>             Do you know any load balancer program for FreeBSD like linux LVS
> . I checked ports and find out morebalance-0.3 and loadd-0.8 ?! Anybody use
> those programs?!
> I want make a load balance on my frontend servers ?! 
> Could you give me advise about using hardware-load-balancer or
> software-load-balancer ?! 
> And I wonder How many connection can handle FreeBSD box ?! Because hardware
> load-balancer can up to 2.000.000 connection per box. I think that with PIII
> and 512 machine I can handle ?! 

This might be better suited to the freebsd-performance lists, however I 
suppose this is as good of an audience as that.

What kind of connections?

When you say load balancer, do you mean true load balancing, or load 
distribution?

Eric

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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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