Re: NAT 4 Linux (project)
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
21 Aug 1998 23:18:01 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980821233153.11446A-100000@bean.xtdnet.nl>
By author: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Michael Hasenstein wrote:
>
> > version of it could be used for their purposes. They wanted to have a
> > setup, where a NAT router distributes HTTP requests to different
> > (physical) web servers based on the user id of who's homepage is
> > requested, e.g. http://www.blabla.com/a-user/ starts with 'a' (a-user)
> > -> to server for homepages of users with 'a...'.
> > There were some additional points about bandwith and cabling, why they
> > wanted to separate the requests like this.
>
> I am probably missing something here. Why would you built something to
> split up requests like this when it's a thousandfold easier to just do
> some round robin DNS to divide the load? If NFS mounted disks on the
> servers is too slow, i am sure some smart mirroring ultrawide scsi with
> a fast network setup could fix that too.
>
> Paul
If a host goes down, it can be transparently removed (round-robin DNS
will have the broken server listed until the entries expire on all
clients.)
-hpa
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