Help: load balancing for tcp/ip server

[Nuwan Samaranayake]

Is it possible to distribute high volume connection requests
on a port among several tcp/ip servers ? I believe that something
similar is done in web server that get high volume of hits.

Thanks in advance for any help in this matter.

- Nuwan

[Dan Wing]

Solutions I'm aware of are:

o round robin A records, a feature of BIND 4.9.3 and higher. This
doesn't do true load balancing, nor does it handle 'down'
servers, but is sufficient for most people's needs.

o Cisco's Local Director product, which provides true load
balancing at up to 45Mbps, and works with any OS or webserver on
the server side. See
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/751/lodir/index.html
(I work for Cisco)

-Dan Wing
dw...@tgv.com / dw...@cisco.com
cisco Systems, Inc.