Generic answers to this are only going to be of minor help for you. Knowing more about your specific use cases (particularly, what protocols you're using for authentication) will help a lot.<div><br></div><div>Also, we don't know your architecture. Unless you have a flat network, a single load-balancer for authentication (typically on the back end) won't help you with web load-balancing (typically on the front end) - unless your LB has a lot of interfaces and you're OK with it straddling your DMZ and internal networks. And, like I said, without knowing what protocols you need, a web LB might not be the right fit for your auth needs.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Rob Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgt@wi.mit.edu" target="_blank">rgt@wi.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Guys. We have some applications here that either can't or can't easily support connections to redundant servers for authentication,<br>
and another application that has been known to beat the tar out of the single authentication server it uses.<br>
I was asked to look into it and some talk had came up about looking into a load balancer for distributing the load, or at least making it so that the less capable clients can failover to another server.<br>
I'm sure we would find other uses for it besides this, like web redirection during server outages/maintenance, and possibly distributing logins to cluster login nodes.<br>
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Right now, our needs are pretty meager. I've started looking at a some software ones, like balanceNG, HAproxy, to see what they can do.<br>
I've also downloaded a demo of stingray, which used to be known as Zeus.<br>
Coyote point also makes a very inexpensive starter hardware model, $2k list.<br>
I've got cisco gear in house, but none that seem to support SLB or I would have looked at that as well.<br>
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Load balancers are a technology that I've never really had a chance to play with, so I don't really know what to look for and what to avoid.<br>
Can anyone out there provide any insight on products that they have used, what they have used them for and their experiences?<br>
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Thanks.<br>
<br>
rgt<br>
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Whitehead Network/System Administrator<br>
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