RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

Yeah, so why bother? As long as load balancers don't have GigE
ports, I can't use them and have to use something like Resonate.
Besides, LBs don't do site-site load balancing. If you want to do
distributed load sharing then there really isn't much choice.
Personally, I don't see benefits of LBs that proper clustering
wont give you. Component clusters work well, much better than
simple LB will give you.

> From: tony bourke: Friday, July 07, 2000 8:01 AM
>
> you can do EtherChannel for more than 100 Mbps, but we all
> know how well
> that works.
>
> Tony
>
> On Fri, 7 Jul
> 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
> > The last time I looked at one, I couldn't get it in
> > GigE...100baseTX only. Ergo, I couldn't run it on my
backbone.
> > > Sutantyo, Danny: Thursday, July 06, 2000 8:37 AM
> > >
> > > How about Local Director?
> > >
> > > From:     Richard Colella:        Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:38 AM
> > >
> > > 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.