[sclug] sclug Digest, Vol 59, Issue 1

[Jonathan Tien]

The closest solution I can think of immediately would be a reverse proxy server,  you could setup one up in Linux, but you can also get some free appliances such as profense...

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1251

Kind regards

Jonathan

 
On Tuesday, August 05, 2008, at 05:00AM, <sclug-request at sclug.org.uk> wrote:
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>Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:43:52 +0100
>From: "n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com" <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>
>Subject: [sclug] Linux as a web-farm load-balancer
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>Hi,
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>I need some advice!
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>I want to set up a load balancer in front of a pair of WinXP webservers, to
>test some software in a web farm environment. Cash is tight, so a Linux
>solution sounds a good approach.  There are a couple of issues that I can
>see might get in the way:
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>1. The WinXP webservers are in an Active Directory domain. Is this an issue?
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>2. What exactly do I have to do to set this up? I have the latest OpenSuse11
>available, for example, but am prepared to try any distro that will quickly
>and easily solve my problem.
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>All help welcomed.
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>Regards,
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>Neil.
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