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Originally Posted by webcrawler2050
Well. the power, shouldnt be an issue too much..
Our dell R200 (Rackmount) run at about 0.6AMps constantly, they use just short of 1AMP on boot.
Personally, to make this work "properly" you are going to need 3 PC / Servers to load balance, well, to get the true benefits from a load balancer.
There is a much simpler way of doing this.. I think..
Use your DSL Modem, slap a router / switch on the end. Saves the exspense of two modems etc.
For a webserver, I would never, ever, ever, touch Windows, its simply pants and the new version of Server 2008 will only allow for 64bit..
Personally and this is personally, I would slap A centos Distro on the machine(s) with Apache, works far superior.
Just my 2 cents worth..
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Sorry i don't think I was clear enough with my orginal post, I'm not actually trying to load balance servers, I simply want to make use of 2 Internet connections so that on multithreaded apps I can boost my speeds and also if one of the lines drops sync failover to the other one
I simply used FTP/HTTP as an example type of traffic.
E.g I'd like when uploading with several connections between myself and the server for the Load balancer to relise that WAN1 has uploading at capacity and to also upload using WAN2.
What I found with the tests I was doing on the Draytek so far is that it once it had decided to use WAN2 for a specific desitnation becuase that was less busy but it seems that all traffic to that desitnation would then go over WAN2.
Mind you was only testing it with a small amount of traffic.