[AusNOG] Experiences with web load balancers

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Feb 22, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Ian Henderson wrote:

> if you can't trust your own network between the accelerator/load balancer and the content 
> hosts, what can you trust?

I trust any network infrastructure elements under my direct span of control just fine, it's *people* I don't trust - nor should you, nor your customers.

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

It's my understanding they do, though I've no hands-on experience using them in such an environment.

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