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Re: Hardware Question + LVS Question

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Subject: Re: Hardware Question + LVS Question
From: "Jacob Coby" <jcoby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:18:05 -0400
> Unless you really know what you're doing, you should have the LVS director
> and the firewall on different boxes. If you want high availability
> (ie you want to be able to bring down the director for maintenance,
> planned or otherwise), then you should plan for two directors.

Ok, then.  Thanks.  Can the director(s) be behind the firewall with LVS-DR?

> I have not used a celeron, but without a cache, you're getting half the
performance
> for 3/4 the cost. I don't know how important the cost is, but you'd
> get better performance with a CPU with some cache on it.

Typed too fast; that should read "p4 or celeron."  I'm glad you pointed it
out though.

-Jacob

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