[rescue] web server loadbalancing...

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, August 2, 2001 at 17:37:18 (-0500), Reagen B . Ward wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] web server loadbalancing...
>
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:35:20PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On Thursday, August 2, 2001 at 17:22:20 (-0400), Stephen Worotynec wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: [rescue] web server loadbalancing...
> > >
> > > This is where the F5 shines..since it is a PC with a modified BSD/OS
> > > kernel, it can use as a rule anything you can script or program on BSD, as
> > > well as the F5 supplied algorithms. It can page a database programmer for
> > > a MySQL error, it can move machines in and out of pools based on response
> > > time, HTTP response code, or the phase of the moon if you wish.
> > 
> > Which is of course exactly the same for IP Filter.....
> 
> IP Filter can automatically move machines in and out of pools based on
> response time and HTTP response codes?

Anything you can script or program for on BSD can control IP Filter --
it needs no magic, just some text files and command line controls
(though if you do want to write in something that can do ioctl() calls
then you can go directly at the pseudo-device interfaces too).

There's no limit!  ;-)

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