couple of drawbacks to the LD that other products do not suffer from: * lack of cookie-based persistance support * only works when servers and LB instance are on the same subnet (having them on different subnets would have the LB acting as a router which is great for packet filtering) * lack of any other Layer 5 functionality * is a server-based LB (If you pop one open, you'll see a pentium chip inside) rather than ASIC based Tony On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Dru Nelson wrote:

I'm unhappy with the local director. The fact that it cannot route is a major disappointment (it is more of a switch than a router).

Dru Nelson San Mateo, California

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Alberto Begliomini wrote:

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It depends which Local Director. The 430 is screaming fast and the 416 in conjunction with a 6509 and ASLB is very fast too. I have been using both solutions at customers sites with peak traffic of around a million hits per day.

-- Alberto U. Begliomini Email: aub@coldstone.com Coldstone Consulting, LLC Phone: 650-400-3990 Security, Data Centers Design and Management Fax: 650-654-5938

Karyn Ulriksen wrote:

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How about Local Director?

Everyone I've spoke to about LD is very unhappy with it's performance.

-----Original Message----- From: Richard Colella [mailto:colella@aol.net] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:38 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron

Products are also available from Alteon, Cisco (Distributed Director) and Resonate. Last time I looked, none of these products does everything one wants, IMHO, but the set union of features comes pretty close.

--Richard

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I believe BigIP has a product called DNS3 that serves a similar function. One of our ".com's" uses it to support their dual co-lo set-up.

-TY

-----Original Message----- From: Brantley Jones [mailto:bjones@redundant.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:06 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron

At 09:28 PM 7/5/2000 -0400, you wrote:

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they also have the dns based solution available on serverirons. -- dima.

Speaking of using a DNS proxy, does anybody know of anybody else doing

this

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besides Foundry??

Brantley

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