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Archive for April, 2008
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Coyote Point 8.0 First Look
Posted on April 28, 2008 | 1 CommentCoyote Point recently announced the release of their 8.0 Equalizer code for their load balancer/application delivery line. Coyote Point was kind enough to hook me up with a preview release of the 8.0 code, and I loaded it up on a pair of e350si’s and... -
Vacation
Posted on April 26, 2008 | No CommentsI’m off on vacation (yes, I know, during Interop) starting today, and I shall return in May to regale you with more musings of the load balancer realm. In my absence, I have programmed this here Interweb machine to automatically post articles on a regular... -
Part-Time Regex’r? Regex Coach
Posted on April 21, 2008 | 2 CommentsI deal with regex enough to need to know a beginning to intermediate level of knowledge, but I don’t use it enough to be able to form regex statements without thinking. Or in load balancing terms, it’s not burned into my brain ASIC. Every time... -
Top 5 Gotchas of Load Balancing (That Actually Are Your Fault… Sorta)
Posted on April 17, 2008 | 1 CommentEight years ago I wrote an article called “It’s Always The Load Balancer“, and eight years later, that’s still the case. But despite being the undeserved scape-goat of an infrastructure’s (and society’s) ills, there are a few things that actually are the load balancers fault... -
Review: A10 Networks AX2000
Posted on April 16, 2008 | 9 CommentsStagnant for several years, lately the load balancer/application delivery controller market has seen new life, with several existing vendors making renewed pushes, at least one vendor pulling out (Juniper), and a completely new vendor, A10 Networks. Founded by Lee Chen, co-founder of Foundry Networks, A10... -
Product Reviews
Posted on April 14, 2008 | 1 CommentStarting with the next post, lbdigest.com will be doing a series of product reviews. Just like any other industry publication, these reviews will be arranged with the individual vendors, and no money will be accepted from the vendors for the review. (Unless the amount of... -
Duplex Mismatch Windows Tip
Posted on April 13, 2008 | 1 CommentA great little tool for Windows systems is the command “netstat -e“. I shall explain. A bane of of the network is the insidious duplex mismatch issue. This is when, through either autonegotion or auto-detection, one end of two cabled devices think the link is... -
There’s No One Here By That Name
Posted on April 2, 2008 | 1 CommentHere’s one of the trickier issues that can sometimes come up with load balancing. You’ve setup load balancing for a couple of application servers, and at least on a TCP level, things appear to be working. However, the app guys are complaining that the load...