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Re: TurboLinux cluster

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Subject: Re: TurboLinux cluster
From: Jeremy Hansen <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 17:03:52 -0400 (EDT)
 Woah, a netfilter module would be very cool. :-)
 
 Thanks
 -jeremy
 
> > On 1999-10-29T02:29:06,
> >    Wensong Zhang <wensong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > 
> > > That statements has last for 5 months, however Mike <wanger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > told me that they used the exact patch from LVS project at the end of
> > > this September.
> > 
> > I just checked, the SRPM includes the 0.5x patch, but doesn't apply it. It
> > ships ip_cs.[ch] instead.
> > 
> > Well, it is an implementation of the code I would say ;) It appears it can
> > only do weighted round robin scheduling and doesn't do masquerading, but 
> > only
> > tunneling/direct.
> > 
> > My personal guess would also be that it isn't as scalable as ipvs, but thats
> > just an uneducated remark after briefly glancing over the code.
> > 
> > If you want to check out just the server code for yourself, I made it
> > available as ftp://ftp.teuto.net/pub/devel/lmb/cluster-kernel-4.0.4.tgz so 
> > you
> > don't have to grab the entire 17MB srpm.
> > 
> > My comments on this issue are: TurboLinux managed to act in a way which was
> > perceived as nice, and right now, their code is behind the LVS/ipvs code
> > featurewise for sure and, as I would assume, not as proven in the real world
> > nor as scalable.
> > 
> > Having two independant implementations, both GPL'ed, is generally a good
> > thing, because you can afford one of them to fail and learn from their
> > errors...
> > 
> > As far as I know, LVS/ipvs is also ahead w/ regard to becoming a netfilter
> > module, which will be a major boost again for performance and modularity.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> >     Lars Marowsky-Brée
> >     
> > --
> > Lars Marowsky-Brée
> > Network Management
> > 
> > teuto.net Netzdienste GmbH
> > 
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