Layer 4 switching in FBSD?

Brent Wiese brently at bjwcs.com
Thu Sep 2 16:59:10 PDT 2004


Maybe the Eddie Mission? 

http://eddie.sourceforge.net/ 

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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Steve Bertrand
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:15 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Layer 4 switching in FBSD?
> 
> I'd like to implement some style of load balancing for my smtp and
> spamassassin servers. It was suggested to me that layer-4 
> switching was
> the way to go. I do not want to do round-robin DNS, as it 
> could prove to
> be a problem if one of the boxes goes down.
> 
> For bridging type firewalls and/or network surveylance 
> equipment, I often
> put 5 NIC's into a FBSD box and it works perfectly great.
> 
> I'd like to know if FBSD is capable of layer-4 switching, or 
> some other
> similar technology to load balance that it can do while loaded up with
> NIC's.
> 
> Tks for any input, suggestions or advice.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Steve
> 
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