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/
> -----Original Message-----
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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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