Re: [Sheflug] ipvs / NLB and frontends...

[Christopher Brown <snecklifter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 August 2011 09:46, Chris J <cej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have experience of using Linux as a network load balancer?
> Doing some poking about, looks like I need to go down the ipvs[1] route -
> however what would also be useful is a graphical config tool. What I'm
> looking at configuring up is the one-network LVS-NAT as defined at [2].
>
> {background} basically I need to get a couple of servers load balanced
> (both short-lived http as well as long-term tcp connections) in a test
> envrionment, except that I want to hand over the gubbins of configuration
> over to another team. No-one in other team really knows much UNIX, and
> networking knowledge is working but not too advanced. However I trust them
> not to screw something up if I tell them "you want to do {this} and {this}
> and it'll just work" (and it makes the "this" easier if it's entering
> stuff into a GUI). It's basically a case of minimising the amount of
> support I need to do for them whilst giving them enough flexibility to get
> things working themselves without shooting themselves in the foot (and
> bringing the test network down in the process) too quickly :-)

Hmm, not really sure if this will help but you might want to look at
Untangle, which has a load balancer (and failover) plugin:

http://www.untangle.com/wan-balancer

Unfortunately the wan balancer bit is a paid-for app but they do the
free stuff very, very well so if you think it might suit would
strongly recommend it.

HTH

-- 
Christopher Brown

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