any suggestion for web server load balancing appliances

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:14:27AM -0700, Dave Peters wrote:
> All,
> 
> Has anyone using Cisco Catalyst switch as a load balancing? I think switch balancing is a network traffic load balancing and it is different with server farms. Please correct me if I was wrong.
> 

There are a bunch of different things with similar/confusing
names.

Network load balancing means taking general IP traffic and
distributing it among several networks. This is a function of
routers (and switches with built-in routers, like Catalyst).

Web load balancing means redirecting HTTP and HTTP/SSL requests, 
possibly with interception, across a specific group of servers
that are prepared to handle that. Cisco sells LocalDirector and
has some functions in IOS that assist this.

-dsr-

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