Cisco Networking

BGP Load Sharing

Load balancing with BGP is not possible in a multihomed environment with two ISPs. BGP selects only the single best path to a destination among the BGP paths that are learned from different ASs, which makes load balancing impossible. However, load sharing is possible in such multihomed BGP networks. To Read more…

By Joe Conklin, ago
CentOS

MySQL Load Balancing using HAProxy

HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for very high traffic web sites and powers quite a number of the world's most visited ones. Over the years it has become the de-facto Read more…

By Joe Conklin, ago
CentOS

HTTP Load Balancing using HAProxy

HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for very high traffic web sites and powers quite a number of the world's most visited ones. Over the years it has become the de-facto Read more…

By Joe Conklin, ago
Cisco Networking

EIGRP Load Balancing

Load balancing is a standard functionality of the Cisco IOS router software, and is available across all router platforms. It is inherent to the forwarding process in the router and is automatically activated if the routing table has multiple paths to a destination. It is based on standard routing protocols, Read more…

By Joe Conklin, ago