In the immortal words of variable@ednet.co.uk (variable@ednet.co.uk):
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Austad, Jay wrote:
As a side note, I've used Cisco's CSS, F5's stuff, Alteon, and Foundry. Out of all of them that I've used, the Foundry had the least problems and had a nicely structured config.
Foundry seems to be fine for www traffic, but has serious issues with handling long FTP sessions. FTP works while you're in your stickiness period (up to 2 hours on the non-XL serveriron), but after that it will forget which FTP server has the control session and send your next data session to another server which won't recognise it. Last time I spoke to Foundry, this was still considered a "feature".
Do other vendors handle this properly?
I recall that Resonate Central Dispatch handled this well the last time I looked, but the last time I looked was about 3 years ago now, so take that for what it's worth. (www.resonate.com) -n ------------------------------------------------------------<memory@blank.org> My goal is real simple: to write better than anyone who can write faster than me, and faster than anyone who can write better than me. (--J.M. Straczynski) <http://blank.org/memory/>----------------------------------------------------