[ale] Does anybody have experience with a load-balancing/failover distro?

[Jan Gannon]

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Jan G.
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On Sep 28, 2010, at 12:08 PM, "david w. millians" <millia at panix.com> wrote:

> 
> I've got a district that is getting a second internet connection for 
> redundancy purposes. They would therefore love to have a load balancing 
> and failover appliance. Obviously, there are some vendors that have 
> products to sell them, and also obviously, they cost money that they 
> don't have.
> 
> A fair number of districts have used "untangle" before, but it appears 
> that they charge for the lb/f capability; it's not included in the free 
> download. It may be cheaper for them since they don't need firewall, 
> filtering, etc., but free is preferred, since even the box to do this is 
> a factor...
> 
> So, do you know of/have you used any linux distros that do this well and 
> easily? I'm going to go to distrowatch now, but I just want to know of 
> good experiences.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
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