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Re: load balancing and fault tolerance without load balancer


From: "John Moser" <jmoser () diamondgate net>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:45:38 -0500 (CDT)




On 14-Mar-2008, at 12:42, Joe Shen wrote:

  Is there any way to solve problem above?

The approach described in
<http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0505/abley.cluster.html
 > would probably work, so long as the routers choosing between the
ECMP routes are able to make route selections per flow, and not just
per packet (e.g. "ip cef" on a cisco).

Tony Kapela did a lightning talk a few meetings ago about another
cisco-specific approach which used some kind of SLA-measuring cisco
feature to do the same thing without needing to run a routing protocol
on a server. I can't seem to find a link to the details, but if
someone else knows where it is it'd be good to know.

http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0710/presentations/Kapela-lightning.pdf

-John


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