Squid can do a similar task with reverse proxying + caching + LB.
The SNAT table below would possibly explode with the number of
concurrent connections that we had today.
I think the most important thing would be to get a small set of static
pages on a dedicated server or three that could take 90% of the hits.
--
Jason Watson
Damian Myerscough wrote:
We could also implement a load balancer using iptables "Nth" more
details here:
http://www.netfilter.org/patch-o-matic/pom-base.html#pom-base-nth
if you want to balance the load to the 3 addresses 10.0.0.5, 10.0.0.6
and 10.0.0.7, then you can do as follows :
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -m nth --counter 7 --every 3
--packet 0 -j SNAT --to-source 10.0.0.5
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -m nth --counter 7 --every 3
--packet 1 -j SNAT --to-source 10.0.0.6
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -m nth --counter 7 --every 3
--packet 2 -j SNAT --to-source 10.0.0.7
I am sure this could help.
