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9750: RE: [MUD-Dev] How to support 1000+ simultaneous connections, and some philosophy.
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From: "Jay Carlson" <nop@mitre.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:53:15 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
J C Lawrence writes:
> More intelligent DNS load balancers maintain an arbitration system
> with the nodes they represent, and assign new tasks to least-loaded
> nodes. There are also many other forms of load balancing, encluding
> supports that actively migrate processes across nodes to ensure aven
> loading (IRIX does a bit of this in their CC:NUMA machines).
And there are load balancing solutions beyond DNS. You can set up a
router-like box at a published IP address that does TCP port/address
rewriting to transparently spread inbound requests across a farm of internal
private IP addresses. Cisco's LocalDirector
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/751/lodir/ ) does this. I think it's just
a matter of time before somebody gets motivated enough to add the necessary
support to Linux's IP Masquerading code---it's most of the way there
already.
Jay
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