[sclug] sclug Digest, Vol 59, Issue 2

[n.a.haughton@bigfoot.com]

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stephen Johnson <lohapuk at gmail.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:46:36 +0100
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Linux as a web-farm load-balancer
> http://www.linux.com/articles/60871
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> Give that a bash should work.
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> IF you need any help i sure i can help you out
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> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 13:12 +0100, Alex Butcher wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com wrote:
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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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Thanks - I'll give that a go today. The only possible fly in the ointment is
that the docs mention installing an agent on the target servers, which
suggests they need to be *.nix servers, whereas mine are WinXP/IIS servers
(the app I need to test has been developed on Wintel and only runs under
IIS. But I'll read the docs properly first to see if I am mistaken. Thanks
for the pointer!

Neil