[nsp] Server Load Balancing Options

[Iva Cabric]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:40:20PM -0500, Jason Greenberg wrote:
> 
> Hello, would someone please validate this list, and or recommend less
> alternatives?  I would appreciate it a lot!
> 
> Our requirements: 
> 	1) Server Load Balancing (IP address translation) LAYER 3 ONLY
> 	2) Server availability monitoring (ping?)
> 	3) Redundant Switch Capability (SLB HSRP?)
> 	4) medium load - DNS, LDAP, mail, radius, etc..
> 
> As far as I can tell, my options are
> 
> 1) 6500 SLB CSM - 40-100 grand ?? what modules are needed here?
> 2) 6500 cat/native OS SLB ??? what modules are needed here?
> 3) 4840G - 30 grand
> 4) 7200 Router IOS SLB <- 10 grand
> 5) IOS NAT on a 3640?? <- no high availability here, but cheap...
> 
> Here is my question - is there anything that is not so bloody expensive
> that will do medium load SLB for an ISP?

CSS 11000 series, prices start at 16k$ GPL (you can find them for far
less on ebay), is probably what you are looking for.

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