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Subject: Re: hardware suggestion ...
From: Ramon Kagan <rkagan@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:01:41 -0500 (EST)
I'm not really bound by any of them.  I was just stating for information
sake that 75 Mbits/s sustained is handled easily by a relatively small
machine.

Ramon Kagan
York University, Computing and Network Services
Unix Team -  Intermediate System Administrator
(416)736-2100 #20263
rkagan@xxxxxxxx

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I have not failed.  I have just
found 10,000 ways that don't work.
        - Thomas Edison
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Matthew S. Crocker wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Ramon Kagan wrote:
>
> > We use DR and just for information sake, a PIII 700 with 512 MB RAM holds
> > the bandwidth of about 75 Mbits sustained with little trouble.  Average
> > workload is about 0.27 all day.  Hope that helps.
>
> Are you CPU, memory or network bound?  Most of the LVS stuff is done in
> the kernel and doesn't contribute to actual 'load' as shown from top.
>
> -Matt
>
> >
> > Ramon Kagan
> > York University, Computing and Network Services
> > Unix Team -  Intermediate System Administrator
> > (416)736-2100 #20263
> > rkagan@xxxxxxxx
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> > I have not failed.  I have just
> > found 10,000 ways that don't work.
> >     - Thomas Edison
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, vecna@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > > Ciao Vecna,
> > > > I'm especially honoured to see you on this mailinglist. I love BFi and I
> > > > will  personally make sure you get premium support while setting up LVS.
> > > tnx :) in few time we must release some news :)
> > >
> > > > LVS-NAT or LVS-DR mode?
> > > LVS-DR
> > >
> > > > Are those 2 GB NICs planned for redundant Internet access?
> > > is a separated vlan, not for backuo line, we need behind the LVS
> > > 10-12 RS to work as IDS.
> > >
> > > I'm thinking only to divide the traffic between the IDSs, with a
> > > session tracking of LVS I think this could work fine ...
> > >
> > > "Matthew S. Crocker" <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > Personally I would go with a machine using two Gig Ethernets.  Plug one
> > > > into a switch to break out the 100 mb connetions to the real servers.
> > > I think to use 10/12 cross wire for connect the IDSs directly
> > >
> > > > I would think it would be more memory bandwidth limited than
> > > > actual CPU power.
> > > maybe :) and LVS-DR don't required a lots of memory how could required
> > > LVS-NAT ... but what's about network device ? we are thinking to
> > > but three quad intel for contact the RS and two 3Com 35985 for external
> > > interface, did you know if those work correctly ?
> > >
> > > bye :)
> > > vecna
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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