newb: load balancing

Hi,

Perhaps a dumb question, but curious about load balancing/clusters. I
don't know alot about networking

In a large cluster is it possible for a load balancer to get
overloaded itself? What is the solution, I'm assuming all requests
have to go through a central computer, since a web site for example,
has a fixed IP address mapped to a domain name

Am Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:10:00 -0700 schrieb dave:

> In a large cluster is it possible for a load balancer to get
> overloaded itself? What is the solution, I'm assuming all requests
> have to go through a central computer, since a web site for example,
> has a fixed IP address mapped to a domain name
Yes and no, the IP address is used by the lb (in the most configurations),
the lb routes the packets and it would need a lot of traffic to overload
the lb.
But in this case the lb could alos be in a failover setup, there are a lot
of possibilities to set up a HA environment.