[AusNOG] Experiences with web load balancers

[Ian Henderson]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

> Yes, but it breaks the end-to-end cryptosystem model, which is a Bad 
> Thing.

I realise you have tongue firmly in cheek here, but if you can't trust 
your own network between the accelerator/load balancer and the content 
hosts, what can you trust?

> There are SSL accelerator cards which can be plugged into the buses of 
> various types of servers which can offload SSL processing from the main 
> CPU.

Do any of these work in an ESX or similar virtualised environment?

Rgds,



- I.