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http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/hardware/quartet.html
We bought two of these cards, one for each of our two LVS/Firewall
boxes(bonnie & clyde, of course. :)
They were about $850 a pop. Not bad, as they perform extremely well.. though
heat is an issue(the tulip chips get extremely hot). The machines are Dell
PowerEdge 2450/600's. We also run Squid to cache internal users' web
traffic, FreeS/WAN for an IPSec VPN, snort, IP Masquerading, and about 100
ipchains rules. The boxes are setup in a failover using heartbeat. So far
though [knock on wood] we haven't had any failures, in 61 days of
uptime(minus 2 minutes to upgrade kernel and LVS to 2.2.16). I got most of
the config from http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/HighAvailability.html
LVS has been performing well, though our main use for it hasn't ramped up
yet, so we're only getting about 1000 hits a day on the load-balanced
servers. We're balancing https using NAT, with persistence and wlc. Mon is
being used to remove/add servers to the pools(no ldirectord or piranha). Oh,
and minor distro plug here, they're running Debian 2.2(potato).
Keep up the good work!
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Mack [mailto:mack@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 10:34 AM
To: Wayne
Cc: Ratz; Wensong Zhang; lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ideas about kernel masq table syncing ...
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Wayne wrote:
> Agree that if IP layer hosed, we will be in trouble. Intel making a PCI
> ethernet card has four 10/100 port on one PCI card.
the only quad ethernet cards I've seen are about $1000/quad. Quite
expensive. Are the quad Intels any cheaper?
Joe
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