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At 23:25 18/07/2001 +0200, you wrote:
Hi Suresh,
It seems to me that the real benefit of the Cisco is wire-speed
NAT.
Considering the wire-speed, for a standard use (10-20 realservers) it is
not really needed if you are using a limited Internet bandwidth (2-5
MBits/s). I agree that ASICs works faster but in most case it is not
needed. For example a commercial person (from Alteon) told me : "yes...
blablabla, our hardware solution is better because NAT is done directly
into silicium..." so I answer him, : "whoooo :) but our corporate
Internet Bandwidth is around 4 MBits/s so gigabit interface just to
loadbalance a server pool is really not needed..." So in conclusion IMHO
wire-speed is much more a commercial argument than technical, sometime it
is really need for big ISP/ASP architecture, but most of the time this is
only a luxe.
10-20 realservers is not 2-5 Mbits except on luxe configuration
one of my customers use 24 servers with 50 Mbps and 20% cpu usage :)
How much bandwidth is LVS in production area can manage ?
Regards,
Arnaud Pignard (apignard@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Frontier Online - Opérateur Internet
http://www.frontier.fr
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