Hi, I am not sure, but that Dispatcher has almost the same ability, as a Radius Proxy. The Radius Proxy is able to send the Request packets to different servers ( AFAIK ), without client knowing something about it. Though LDAP is not same as the RADIUS, but I can imagine that is able to write a daemon ( on the balancer box ) that allows connections. And this same daemon should be able to forward the queries to the real servers ( of course the one that are alive ). It also should be able to know which servers are alive and which not... Just my 50 cent... :D Regards, Edvin Seferovic -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruno Negrão Sent: Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2005 19:18 To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: IBM Dispatcher X iptables AND linux advanced routing Hi guys, I'm reading a documentation regarding high availability of LDAP server, and this document says it is possible use an IBM network device called IBM Dispatcher that can automatically divide the bandwidth between two LDAP servers (a master and a slave server (that is a replica of the master)). But further on, it can route all the LDAP traffic to only one server, if the other server is down. I know it's possible to implement bandwidth control with linux, but what about the second feature? Does someone know if it's possible to implement the second feature using linux? Thank you, ------------------------------------------------- Bruno Negrao - Network Manager Engepel Teleinformática. 55-31-34812311 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
