[nycbug-talk] spread and wackamole, (Was Re: ucarp question)

[Trish Lynch]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Isaac Levy wrote:

> Sidenote: PLEASE pretty please don't send any answers like 'just use
> carp(4)', I'm trying to get ucarp working for a definite reason
> here.  If you haven't heard of ucarp, check it out here:
> http://www.ucarp.org/

Curious as to the reason, as I may actually have something else that might 
meet your requirement....

Even if it doesn't, its good to get the word out as not many are using it, 
and its rather cool in both implementation and the fact that its seems 
more reliable than anything else I've used.

http://www.dsn.jhu.edu/pastProjects.html

Has two projects, spread, and wackamole, I use almost exclusively in 
projects that need network redundancy and also, I've been playing with 
WALRUS for load balancing as well (though an external load balancer such 
as Linux Virtual Server, serves me better usually, it depends on the 
requirements of the project).

I used to work for Theo Schlossnagle at OmniTI and the guy IMO is a 
genius and its sad that the most used OSS projects he's worked on are 
mod_backhand and the SecureID integration into OpenSSH, though I had to 
leave because of illness (back in 2003 when my fibromyalgia first was 
diagnosed and I couldn;t physically deal with the symptoms, and I had no 
decent "medical help" like I do now...) I still respect the work we did 
there, including the ecelerity MTA which is totally amazing.

-Trish


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