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List:       loadbalancing-l
Subject:    RE: [load balancing] Alteon Config Question
From:       "Andy Kulp" <akulp () sitesmith ! com>
Date:       2000-08-03 22:55:58
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Thank You all for your input I think I am beginning to understand the idea
of setting multiple groups and associating specific services with those
groups.

Thanks Again!

andy

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lb-l@vegan.net [mailto:owner-lb-l@vegan.net]On Behalf Of
Jeffrey Whitehead
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:39 PM
To: lb-l@vegan.net
Subject: Re: [load balancing] Alteon Config Question


Based on my personal experiences with the 8.0.32 and subsequently 8.0.36 I
would
argue that it's not ready for prime time in a production site.

Depends on the amount of traffic you have, however, and how complex your
configuration is.


Karyn Ulriksen wrote:

> I'm only running 6.0.42, but I have 8 on a new switch I did beta for
Alteon
> on and now have the full rev.  Pretty clean. I'm happy, but just haven't
had
> time to switch out the one on line for this new one.  Version 8 also plays
> with all their ASICs and distributes the load across them all instead of
> just using the ingress for decision making.  Pretty smart.

Except you can't use PIP on port 9 any more, the only place it makes sense
to
use it in quite a few configurations. Also requires DAM and 8.0.32 they
broke
the NAT filters, again. Also don't understand why they went back to the hot
standby/vrrp group stuff in 8.0 instead of just continuing with VRRP as in
6.0.x.

The bandwidth management stuff and QoS stuff is extremely cool, though, with
BGP
it'll be on the upgrade list as soon as all the bugs are worked out. I
wonder if
the BGP ties into the GSLB very well?

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