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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    Think Doods means VIPs and stick sessions on Cats but I'm in interview mode here...
    I think that might be what I meant. I was kind of hoping a £100 router off ebay would do it but it seems that you need quite an expensive switch.

    I will have a google for this F5 vm & open BSD. Thanks for the tips.

    BTW does anyone know what the score is with licensing the F5 boxes 2nd hand? If I buy a cheap one will it basically work or will I need to give F5 money?

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by smatty View Post
    I'd not heard of Ciscos IOS load balancing, from a quick browse on their site seems it only works on 6500s & 7600s.

    There used to be an F5 image you could download and run in a VM, no idea if it still exists.

    Must be some free Linux/BSD based load balancers around.
    Think Doods means VIPs and stick sessions on Cats but I'm in interview mode here...

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  • smatty
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    I'd not heard of Ciscos IOS load balancing, from a quick browse on their site seems it only works on 6500s & 7600s.

    There used to be an F5 image you could download and run in a VM, no idea if it still exists.

    Must be some free Linux/BSD based load balancers around.

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  • petergriffin
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    Righty.

    I need a load balancer for use in a development environment.
    How familiar are you with OpenBds? It has load balancing capabilities by default. I remember reading an Openbsd manual circa 2003 about this thing. PermieCo. was running OpenBsd on server, cool stuff.

    Just fetch a cheap PC rotting in the basement, it will do the job. You don't even need a hard drive, it can run from a cheap USB drive. No need for users and /home directory, the whole thing will run from /sbin/init.

    Good thing of OpenBds, they kept the old venerable init.

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    RRDNS?
    That would handle load balancing but there are persistent client connections that need to fail over transparently in a HA scenario, so we need to present a single IP.

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  • stek
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    RRDNS?

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  • doodab
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    If I can do it in IOS, I can probably use dynamips.

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  • doodab
    started a topic Load balancers

    Load balancers

    Righty.

    I need a load balancer for use in a development environment. It doesn't need whopping throughput or gigabit ports, it's purely to allow me to develop and test something with HA & clustering capabilities and verify that it actually works. It needs to work at the TCP level and support stickiness.

    Budget = cheaper the better.

    I am currently thinking I can do this with a cheapish Cisco router (1841 or similar) cos IOS does everything. Am I on the right track?
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