Has foundry figured out how to introduce persistence in their LB's yet? I like their switches and have been waiting for them to get persistence going on. I think I'll jump on that LB list you cited below. Wasn't aware that one was around now. Great idea! Thanx! -Karyn -----Original Message----- From: tony bourke [mailto:tony@vegan.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 11:11 AM To: Jeremiah Kristal Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: bad idea? actually, Foundry has a global solution based on BGP, check them out. There is a load-balancing mailing list, which addresses such issues. http://vegan.net/lb is the info to sign up. Tony On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jeremiah Kristal wrote:

Given a small, globally routable netblock to be used for front-end web servers, and a strong aversion for using DNS for any type of load balancing, would it be reasonable to build two identical servers farms with the same public IP addresses and rely on the BGP sessions with the hosing providers to remove one advertisement in the event of a problem? I've been looking at ways to ensure that the webservers are always available, short of building a network connecting hosting facilities.

Jeremiah being a customer stinks

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