Load Balancing in FreeBSD

luke at themango.org luke at themango.org
Thu Mar 4 16:52:12 PST 2004


> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to find a solution for FreeBSD like the Windows Load
> Balancing.
> I don't want to have a dedicated machine doing load balancing for multiple
> web servers since it will be a single point of failure.
>
> Instead, I would like to have a utility running on all the freebsd
> machines
> that check each other in a cluster and take over for the overloaded node
> based on predefined rules.
>
> I am not sure if this even exists since I could not find a solution yet on
> the web.
>
> Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Anjan
>

http://www.bsdshell.net/

I came across this awhile ago, though I have never used nor do I know if
it's really what you want. But it's at least worth a shot.

Cheers,

Luke


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