But if you take a look at the server itself (the log) it's not really load balancing, I use 'least conn' instead of 'round robin', and I thought the diff between 430 and 416 is just how many NIC card you can attach to the LD... -----Original Message----- From: Alberto Begliomini [mailto:aub@coldstone.com] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:11 PM To: Karyn Ulriksen Cc: 'Sutantyo, Danny'; 'lb-l@vegan.net'; 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: Re: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron 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.

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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 besides Foundry??

Brantley