[rescue] web server loadbalancing...
joshua d boyd
rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 3 12:08:21 CDT 2001
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:55:22AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I was very impressed when I read an account of a casino IT manager being
> certain enough of at least his network infrastructure that he'd invite
> anyone on tour of the facilities to pull up to five patch cords of a
> specific colour from his switch array so long as they didn't pull all
> such coloured cords from any one switch (these being the ones that
> interconnected the switches in a full mesh, thus at least partially
> simulating switch failures, though without actually cutting anyone off
> the network).
So, if he is keeping them from pulling all 5 cables from the same switch,
does that mean that if that one switch exploded that there would be
trouble?
--
Joshua D. Boyd
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