From: Ben Timby (asp@webexc.com)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 18:57:15 EDT
First of all, what you are asking about is not security related, it is
however called high availability this is often implemented as a failover
setup (what you described) or NLB, Network Load Balancing. Both of these
concepts are closely related, and the solutions are often nearly the
same (configuration is different). NLB can be implemented via software,
but more often in hardware. MS has Application Center, which has a bunch
of IIS related mgmt. tools along with NLB implementation. In contrast
you could go the hardware route, and check out F5 (I have used these
personally with great success), Coyote Point systems or Cisco Local
Director (maybe something else now, have not looked at their stuff
recently) to name a few.
If you are looking for a low cost solution, you could go another route,
which is to use an apache server running mod_proxy as a reverse proxy. I
know there are other mods for apache that allow cookie based server
affinity and other neat tricks. You could also look into using the PF
firewall on OpenBSD (or FreeBSD) to do blind round robin packet
forwarding. Either of these solutions would require you to place a *BSD
or Linux machine in front of your Windows boxen to handle the balancing
of load.
Hope that helps.
Bénoni MARTIN wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to set up 2 "redundant" web servers (identical web sites), i.e. when one crashes, the other one takes the connection over. The same thing which is already available for firewalls (high disponibility), but with web servers.
>
> We would have 2 Windozes in a DMZ with IIS as the web server, and a pix firewall between the dmz and Internet. Is there any tool allowing this out there ? I tried to google quite a while, but without any chance...
>
> Some one has an idea ?
>
> Cheers list !
>
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