[c-nsp] Virtual IP Question

[Robert Blayzor]

On Apr 10, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:
> I'm hoping to actually take the heartbeat function out of this mix  
> as both
> machines can run fully mirrored to one another and handle requests -  
> I"d
> like to "frontend" the system and take the decision making away from  
> the
> servers themselves....
>
> Just browsing Cisco's website and it looks like I could get a  
> ACE-4710-1F-K9
> appliance that would do the trick?  Price is quite reasonable ....  
> anyone
> used them?



You already have the 6500, why not just use IOS SLB?  You can setup  
various probe checks and/or primary and backup server farms.

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