[rescue] web server loadbalancing...

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, August 2, 2001 at 20:15:01 (-0400), Big Endian wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] web server loadbalancing...
>
> wouldn't it be kinda cheap to just set both servers up on the same IP 
> and let ARP take care of the load balance? 

No, absolutely not.  You need to have L2/L3 coherency in your network.
You don't want packets from one TCP session being split accross to the
other system.

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