RE: IBM Dispatcher X iptables AND linux advanced routing

["Seferovic Edvin" <edvin.seferovic@kolp.at>]

Hi,

I am not sure, but that Dispatcher has almost the same ability, as a Radius
Proxy. The Radius Proxy is able to send the Request packets to different
servers ( AFAIK ), without client knowing something about it.

Though LDAP is not same as the RADIUS, but I can imagine that is able to
write a daemon ( on the balancer box ) that allows connections. And this
same daemon should be able to forward the queries to the real servers ( of
course the one that are alive ). It also should be able to know which
servers are alive and which not...

Just my 50 cent... :D

Regards,

Edvin Seferovic 

-----Original Message-----
From: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org
[mailto:netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org] On Behalf Of Bruno Negrão
Sent: Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2005 19:18
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: IBM Dispatcher X iptables AND linux advanced routing

Hi guys,

I'm reading a documentation regarding high availability of LDAP server, and
this 
document says it is possible use an IBM network device called IBM Dispatcher

that can automatically divide the bandwidth between two LDAP servers (a
master 
and a slave server (that is a replica of the master)). But further on, it
can 
route all the LDAP traffic to only one server, if the other server is down.

I know it's possible to implement bandwidth control with linux, but what
about 
the second feature? Does someone know if it's possible to implement the
second 
feature using linux?

Thank you,
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