[ale] Apache load balancing?

[Tony Scalzitti]

If I am not mistaken is there not a load balance feature with ipchains.  In
commericial bizz I have used FW-1 to load balance a group of web servers.
This would ideally require a extra box, but maybe not.

Not sure if this is what you are looking for

-T

----- Original Message -----
 From: Eric Webb <foobar at stargate.totalchaos.org>
To: <jbayes at cs.oberlin.edu>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 1999 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Apache load balancing?


> > >I'm wondering if there's a way to set up Apache so that it could
> > >perform load balancing between the two resulting analog uplinks (one
being
> > >my current analog ISP, the other being my broadband analog uplink).
> >
> > I don't know about apache, but there's an option for serial line load
> > balancing support in the kernel; you might want to take a look at
> > that.
>
> Actually, that's not going to help.  My two services are different
> providers, different IPs, different networks, etc.  So, the smarts would
> have to be in Apache so that it would modify outgoing HTML and imbed an
> appropriate IP for the line with the next-lowest traffic.
>
> However, I think some sites do that via DNS resolution of the "www.."
> address.  It might still be possible to get Apache to do that, though, via
> redirection.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Eric
>