04-04-2006 10:04 PM
Sorry as this is a general question.
What are the applications that can be load web applications. Can I use ibalanced using the CSS other than t for mail servers or any other type of servers.
Please help
Thank you
Regard
Sanjith
04-05-2006 02:51 AM
Hi Sanjith,
The CSS can be used to loadbalance on any TCP port I believe so any application cab be load balanced (even if you just balance on an IP address level)
It can also be configured to loadbalance UDP ports via the 'flow state' commands.
cheers,
Mike
04-05-2006 08:21 PM
Thank you for the response.
At the application level the CSS can load balance http traffic. Similarly are there any other applications it can load balance.
Also can I load balance between mail servers. Incase yes then how can I do it
Thanks again
Regards
Sanjith
04-05-2006 11:10 PM
Sanjith,
We load balance our mail services by creating a content rule that balances on incoming TCP traffic with a port of 25 (SMTP)
cheers,
Mike
04-05-2006 11:26 PM
Sanjith,
we can loadbalance at different level
L3: IP : so we look the destination ip only to match a content rule
L4: TCP/UDP: we look at destination ip and port.
L5/7: HTTP: we look at destination ip, destination port and some data in the HTTP header like the url.
So, you can loadbalance mail server using a L3 rule or L4 rule.
You can't use a L5 rule as the CSS does not understand the SMTP protocol.
But normally, there is no need to inspect the SMTP packet to make a loadbalancing decision.
Using a L4 rule is enough.
Regards,
Gilles.
04-05-2006 11:47 PM
Thank you so much
Just one last question.As per what I have understood untill now the load balancing can happen at L3/L4/L5/L7. Hence I really dont have to worry if the customer is using some fancy application as long as I know what port number the application is operating on and there should be no issues load balancing any server like say MySQL servers and SMTP/iMAP Servers.
I hope I have got this right?
Thank you
Regards
Sanjith
04-06-2006 11:07 PM
Sanjith,
you got it right.
Gilles.
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