Re: Load Balancing

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:15:40 +0100 (BST)


> I was wondering if there will be any support for Load Balancing across
> multiple machines using Ethernet and FDDI in the kernel, I mean by that

No - its a user space problem

> having a Linux machine acting like a Local Director that distributes the
> load between many machines behind it. (e.g. CISCO Local Director) .

Someone posted about a beta test web load spreader they had running on
comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix a few months ago. For most cases using
multiple A records and letting DNS load spread is simpler