Archive for April, 2008

  • Coyote 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...

    Coyote Point 8.0 First Look

    Coyote 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...

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  • I’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...

    Vacation

    I’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...

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  • I 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...

    Part-Time Regex’r? Regex Coach

    I 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...

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  • Eight 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...

    Top 5 Gotchas of Load Balancing (That Actually Are Your Fault… Sorta)

    Eight 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...

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  • Stagnant 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...

    Review: A10 Networks AX2000

    Stagnant 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...

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  • Starting 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...

    Product Reviews

    Starting 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...

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  • A 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,...

    Duplex Mismatch Windows Tip

    A 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,...

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  • Here’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...

    There’s No One Here By That Name

    Here’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...

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