Load Balancing

[richard@iguana.co.nz]

> Hi Richard
> > 
> > Anyone? :)
> > Anyone interested in such a system should I decide its so necessary I
> > write it myself? cavets in implementation?
>
> It is very much necessary to write one for advanced load balancing.
> I am writing a http load balancer for web servers that maintains state 
> information, cause this is not possible at packet filtering level.
> If you are going to write on I will give u as much info I can and
> help to in development also

For exclusively user-space, Eddie (http://www.eddieware.org/) is extremely
advanced and I have yet to hear of any complaints of it. I was thinking of
a more hybrid tool that would still do network-level load balancing, just
with a bit more intelligence in terms of figuring out who should get the
next connection, to take account of non-homogenous server clusters (ie: a
slow computer in a cluster of fast ones that keeps getting more con's than
it can handle because its handling so few).

Richard.