RE: [load balancing] Question

One important thing that i forget to tell. We must could configure
loadbalancer for accepting a direct server response, and simply.

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De : owner-lb-l@vegan.net [mailto:owner-lb-l@vegan.net] De la part de Mael
RIVOAL
Envoyé : mercredi 4 octobre 2006 10:24
À : lb-l@vegan.net
Objet : RE: [load balancing] Question

On 10/3/06, Mael RIVOAL <mrivoal@artful.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Could you explain me a little this sentences ? "On Foundry-land be
> sure that the topology you plan to use is supported by all the
> features and performance you want, as you likely won't connect the
> servers directly to the ServerIron"

>Some topologies are not supported by Foundry on all software versions,
>some
will have impact on performance or on available features.

>Here follow some of the questions you'll need to ask yourself; I'm not
familiar with current Foundry boxes, so I won't be able to determine the
feasability of a given hardware/software to your needs, but may be someone
else can.

> Our architecture is that we will connect the loadbalancer on a lan and
> no server should be connected on it directly. We'll use vlan on our
> network and Load balancer need to contact servers on LAN.

>Will/could/may not/ the loadbalancer be on the same VLANs that all
>servers
are ? Or is there a routing hop between the loadbalancer and the servers ?

The LB will be on the same Vlans than servers, it will have all needed vlan
configured on it.

> Our needs a simply on Layer4 and we're not plan to loadBalance at layer 7.

>Will/could/may not/ use direct server return ?

Yes many of server use direct return

>Inband health monitoring (detecting server failure before keepalive
>failure) is not needed/desirable/mandatory ?
Needed :)

Rubens
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