Forms load balancing and fail-over

Using cisco context switches instead of metric server/metric client. Having trouble making forms fail-over when a 9ias server fails. Has anybody done this?
If so, how?

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WLS6.1sp1 stateful EJB problem = load-balancing and fail over

          I have three problem
          1. I have 2 clustered server. my weblogic-ejb-jar.xml is here
          <?xml version="1.0"?>
          <!DOCTYPE weblogic-ejb-jar PUBLIC '-//BEA Systems, Inc.//DTD WebLogic 6.0.0 EJB//EN'
          'http://www.bea.com/servers/wls600/dtd/weblogic-ejb-jar.dtd'>
          <weblogic-ejb-jar>
          <weblogic-enterprise-bean>
               <ejb-name>DBStatefulEJB</ejb-name>
               <stateful-session-descriptor>
               <stateful-session-cache>
                    <max-beans-in-cache>100</max-beans-in-cache>
                    <idle-timeout-seconds>120</idle-timeout-seconds>
               </stateful-session-cache>
               <stateful-session-clustering>
                    <home-is-clusterable>true</home-is-clusterable>
                    <home-load-algorithm>RoundRobin</home-load-algorithm>
                    <home-call-router-class-name>common.QARouter</home-call-router-class-name>
                    <replication-type>InMemory</replication-type>
               </stateful-session-clustering>
               </stateful-session-descriptor>
               <jndi-name>com.daou.EJBS.solutions.DBStatefulBean</jndi-name>
          </weblogic-enterprise-bean>
          </weblogic-ejb-jar>
          when i use "<home-call-router-class-name>common.QARouter</home-call-router-class-name>"
          and deploy this ejb, exception cause
          <Warning> <Dispatcher> <RuntimeException thrown b
          y rmi server: 'weblogic.rmi.cluster.ReplicaAwareServerRef@9 - jvmid: '2903098842
          594628659S:203.231.15.167:[5001,5001,5002,5002,5001,5002,-1]:mydomain:cluster1',
          oid: '9', implementation: 'weblogic.jndi.internal.RootNamingNode@5f39bc''
          java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Failed to instantiate weblogic.rmi.cluster.B
          asicReplicaHandler due to java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ReplicaAwareInfo.instantiate(ReplicaAwareInfo.ja
          va:185)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ReplicaAwareInfo.getReplicaHandler(ReplicaAwareI
          nfo.java:105)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ReplicaAwareRemoteRef.initialize(ReplicaAwareRem
          oteRef.java:79)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ClusterableRemoteRef.initialize(ClusterableRemot
          eRef.java:28)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ClusterableRemoteObject.initializeRef(Clusterabl
          eRemoteObject.java:255)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ClusterableRemoteObject.onBind(ClusterableRemote
          Object.java:149)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebindHere(BasicNamingNode.jav
          a:392)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.ServerNamingNode.rebindHere(ServerNamingNode.j
          ava:142)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebind(BasicNamingNode.java:36
          2)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebind(BasicNamingNode.java:36
          9)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebind(BasicNamingNode.java:36
          9)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebind(BasicNamingNode.java:36
          9)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebind(BasicNamingNode.java:36
          9)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.RootNamingNode_WLSkel.invoke(Unknown Source)
          at weblogic.rmi.internal.BasicServerRef.invoke(BasicServerRef.java:296)
          So do i must use it or not???
          2. When i don't use "<home-call-router-class-name>common.QARouter</home-call-router-class-name>"
          , there's no exception
          but load balancing does not happen. According to the document , there's must load
          balancing when i call home.create() method.
          my client program goes here
               DBStateful the_ejb1 = (DBStateful) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(home.create(),
          DBStateful.class);
               DBStateful the_ejb2 = (DBStateful) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(home.create(3),
          DBStateful.class);
          the result is like that
               the_ejb1 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.167 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@4695a6)/397
               the_ejb2 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.167 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@acf6e)/398
               or
               the_ejb1 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.125 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@252fdf)/380
               the_ejb2 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.125 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@6a0252)/381
               I think the result should be like under one... isn't it??
               the_ejb1 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.167 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@4695a6)/397
               the_ejb2 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.125 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@6a0252)/381
          In this case i think the_ejb1 and the_ejb2 must have instance in different cluster
          server
          but they go to one server .
          3. If i don't use      "<home-call-router-class-name>common.QARouter</home-call-router-class-name>",
          "<replication-type>InMemory</replication-type>" then load balancing happen but
          there's no fail-over
          So how can i get load-balancing and fail over together??


          I have three problem
          1. I have 2 clustered server. my weblogic-ejb-jar.xml is here
          <?xml version="1.0"?>
          <!DOCTYPE weblogic-ejb-jar PUBLIC '-//BEA Systems, Inc.//DTD WebLogic 6.0.0 EJB//EN'
          'http://www.bea.com/servers/wls600/dtd/weblogic-ejb-jar.dtd'>
          <weblogic-ejb-jar>
          <weblogic-enterprise-bean>
               <ejb-name>DBStatefulEJB</ejb-name>
               <stateful-session-descriptor>
               <stateful-session-cache>
                    <max-beans-in-cache>100</max-beans-in-cache>
                    <idle-timeout-seconds>120</idle-timeout-seconds>
               </stateful-session-cache>
               <stateful-session-clustering>
                    <home-is-clusterable>true</home-is-clusterable>
                    <home-load-algorithm>RoundRobin</home-load-algorithm>
                    <home-call-router-class-name>common.QARouter</home-call-router-class-name>
                    <replication-type>InMemory</replication-type>
               </stateful-session-clustering>
               </stateful-session-descriptor>
               <jndi-name>com.daou.EJBS.solutions.DBStatefulBean</jndi-name>
          </weblogic-enterprise-bean>
          </weblogic-ejb-jar>
          when i use "<home-call-router-class-name>common.QARouter</home-call-router-class-name>"
          and deploy this ejb, exception cause
          <Warning> <Dispatcher> <RuntimeException thrown b
          y rmi server: 'weblogic.rmi.cluster.ReplicaAwareServerRef@9 - jvmid: '2903098842
          594628659S:203.231.15.167:[5001,5001,5002,5002,5001,5002,-1]:mydomain:cluster1',
          oid: '9', implementation: 'weblogic.jndi.internal.RootNamingNode@5f39bc''
          java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Failed to instantiate weblogic.rmi.cluster.B
          asicReplicaHandler due to java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ReplicaAwareInfo.instantiate(ReplicaAwareInfo.ja
          va:185)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ReplicaAwareInfo.getReplicaHandler(ReplicaAwareI
          nfo.java:105)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ReplicaAwareRemoteRef.initialize(ReplicaAwareRem
          oteRef.java:79)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ClusterableRemoteRef.initialize(ClusterableRemot
          eRef.java:28)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ClusterableRemoteObject.initializeRef(Clusterabl
          eRemoteObject.java:255)
          at weblogic.rmi.cluster.ClusterableRemoteObject.onBind(ClusterableRemote
          Object.java:149)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebindHere(BasicNamingNode.jav
          a:392)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.ServerNamingNode.rebindHere(ServerNamingNode.j
          ava:142)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebind(BasicNamingNode.java:36
          2)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebind(BasicNamingNode.java:36
          9)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebind(BasicNamingNode.java:36
          9)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebind(BasicNamingNode.java:36
          9)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.rebind(BasicNamingNode.java:36
          9)
          at weblogic.jndi.internal.RootNamingNode_WLSkel.invoke(Unknown Source)
          at weblogic.rmi.internal.BasicServerRef.invoke(BasicServerRef.java:296)
          So do i must use it or not???
          2. When i don't use "<home-call-router-class-name>common.QARouter</home-call-router-class-name>"
          , there's no exception
          but load balancing does not happen. According to the document , there's must load
          balancing when i call home.create() method.
          my client program goes here
               DBStateful the_ejb1 = (DBStateful) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(home.create(),
          DBStateful.class);
               DBStateful the_ejb2 = (DBStateful) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(home.create(3),
          DBStateful.class);
          the result is like that
               the_ejb1 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.167 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@4695a6)/397
               the_ejb2 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.167 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@acf6e)/398
               or
               the_ejb1 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.125 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@252fdf)/380
               the_ejb2 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.125 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@6a0252)/381
               I think the result should be like under one... isn't it??
               the_ejb1 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.167 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@4695a6)/397
               the_ejb2 = ClusterableRemoteRef(203.231.15.125 weblogic.rmi.cluster.PrimarySecon
               daryReplicaHandler@6a0252)/381
          In this case i think the_ejb1 and the_ejb2 must have instance in different cluster
          server
          but they go to one server .
          3. If i don't use      "<home-call-router-class-name>common.QARouter</home-call-router-class-name>",
          "<replication-type>InMemory</replication-type>" then load balancing happen but
          there's no fail-over
          So how can i get load-balancing and fail over together??

Load-balancing and fail-over between web containers and EJB containers

When web components and EJB components are run in different OC4J instances, can we achieve load-balancing and fail-over between web containers and EJB containers?
null

It looks like there is clustering, but not loadbalancing available for rmi
from the rmi.xml configuration. The application will treat any ejbs on the
cluster as one-to-one look-ups. Orion will go out and get the first ejb
available on the cluster. See the docs on configuring rmi.xml (and also the
note below).
That is a kind-of failover, because if machine A goes down, and the
myotherAejbs.jar are on machine B too, orion will go out and get the bean
from machine B when it can't find machine A. But it doesn't go machine A
then machine B for each remote instance of the bean. You could also specify
the maximum number of instances of a bean, and as one machine gets "loaded",
orion would go to the next available machine...but that's not really
loadbalancing.
That is, you can set up your web-apps with ejbs, but let all of the ejbs be
remote="true" in the orion-application.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE orion-application PUBLIC "-//Evermind//DTD J2EE Application
runtime 1.2//EN" "http://www.orionserver.com/dtds/orion-application.dtd">
<orion-application deployment-version="1.5.2">
<ejb-module remote="true" path="myotherAejbs.jar" />
<ejb-module remote="true" path="myotherBejbs.jar" />
<ejb-module remote="true" path="myotherCejbs.jar" />
&ltweb-module id="mysite" path="mysite.war" />
... other stuff ...
</orion-application>In the rmi.xml you would define your clustering:
<cluster host="230.0.0.1" id="123" password="123abc" port="9127"
username="cluster-user" />
Tag that is defined if the application is to be clustered. Used to set up
a local multicast cluster. A username and password used for the servers to
intercommunicate also needs to be specified.
host - The multicast host/ip to transmit and receive cluster data on. The
default is 230.0.0.1.
id - The id (number) of this cluster node to identify itself with in the
cluster. The default is based on local machine IP.
password - The password configured for cluster access. Needs to match that
of the other nodes in the cluster.
port - The port to transmit and receive cluster data on. The default is
9127.
username - The username configured for cluster access. Needs to match that
of the other nodes in the cluster.

OCS on a cluster with Load balancing and fail safe environment

Dear all,
i want to ask is there any documat or hints on how to do an OCS R2 installaiotn on 3 server with RAC option (clustered Fail Safe), how can i install OCS on a cluster with Load balancing and fail safe environment.
plz i need ur help
thanking u
[email protected]

Dear all,
i want to ask is there any documat or hints on how to do an OCS R2 installaiotn on 3 server with RAC option (clustered Fail Safe), how can i install OCS on a cluster with Load balancing and fail safe environment.
plz i need ur help
thanking u
[email protected]

Network Load Balancing not failing over properly

I have 2 MS 2012 servers setup in a NLB unicast configuration, with 2 NICs each on the same subnet. When I take down the second server (and only the second server) the FQDN goes offline. Below are the ipconfigs for each server. Any help
would be greatly appreciated!
Ethernet adapter Data NIC 192.168.220.172:
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) I350 Gigabit Network
#4
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 6C-3B-E5-B2-48-60
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.172(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.1
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.100
                                       192.168.200.10
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Ethernet adapter Cluster NIC:
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom BCM57810 NetXtreme II
DIS VBD Client) #67
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-BF-C0-A8-DC-AA
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.171(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.170(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.1
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.100
                                       192.168.200.10
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Ethernet adapter Data NIC 192.168.220.174:
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 533FLR-
r #54
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : A0-D3-C1-F6-96-08
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.174(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.1
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.100
                                       192.168.200.10
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Ethernet adapter Cluster NIC:
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : HP NC523SFP 10Gb 2-port Server Ad
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-BF-C0-A8-DC-AA
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.173(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.170(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.1
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.100
                                       192.168.200.10
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Hi MS DEF,
A second network adapter is required to provide peer-to-peer communication between cluster hosts. Please isolate your heartbeat network. With unicast when cluster is connected
to a switch, incoming packets are sent to all the ports on the switch, which can cause switch flooding, please confirm you have setup your switch correct, you can refer the following Cisco Switch related unicast configuration.
The Cisco switch unicast related information:
How to configure Microsoft Network Load Balancing on two switches
https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/11918276/how-configure-microsoft-network-load-balancing-two-switches
More information:
Selecting the Unicast or Multicast Method of Distributing Incoming Requests
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782694(v=ws.10).aspx
An Optimal Network Load Balancing (NLB) Configuration
http://blogs.technet.com/b/clint_huffman/archive/2007/10/08/an-optimal-network-load-balancing-nlb-configuration.aspx
Selecting the Unicast or Multicast Method of Distributing Incoming Requests
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782694(v=ws.10).aspx
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Load Balance and failover over 2 lines.

We have 2 x Cat 6509 with Sup720 and are running Native IOS.
On Switch A, we have a 1GB link configured as an access link on Vlan 2 to DR site connected to a Cat 3550
On Switch B, we have a 1GB Link configured as a trunk to the same DR connected to another Cat 3550
We configured devices to be in VLAN 2 as we want them to use the 1GB link. And the 2nd 1GB link is a logical extension of our main site.
Now, I want to configure these 2 x 1GB link so that they now act as failover as well as Load balancing.
1. How do I do this?
2. Will I need to move the 1GB link on Switch A to switch B
3. Should I configure the Switch A link also as Trunk?
Please help.
Thanks

Do your 3550s run EMI or SMI? If they run EMI, why not run dynamic routing protocol between the 3550s and the 6500s? OSPF would be a good one to use, if you have hierarchical IP addressing. If your addressing is not hierarchical, then use EIGRP.
Other than this, the only other possible way I can think of is GLBP (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1839/products_white_paper09186a00801541c8.shtml)
Prior to GLBP, you could also have used HSRP. But it's a bloody nuisance to configure, 'cuz you need to configure two different HSRP groups for the same pair of switches, then manually assigning different hosts/PCs to use different default gateways. As I said, bloody nuisance.
HTH.

Dual WLAN links with load balancing and failover

Hello,
I am in a scenario where I am in need of two WLAN links between two buildings. There is a distance of 100-150 meters and minimum bandwidth required for both links together is 300Mbit/s. The thing is that both links should use load balancing between them and if one of them goes down, the last one should act as fail over.
I have been looking at Cisco Aironet 1550 Series though I have no idea what is needed to get load balancing and fail over to work, so I am searching here for suggestions on what equipment is needed.
Something like this:
              ---------------WLAN Link 150-300Mbit/s-----------
Building                    Load balancing and fail over               Building
          ---------------WLAN Link 150-300Mbit/s-----------
Thanks in advance!

Several points.
When an AP is doing 300Mbps, that's NOT the real throughput you have. It's the data rate at which traffic is sent.
All in all, if your AP/client are doing 300MBps association, you will see max 150Mbps with a file transfer.
From there, I'm not even sure that 11n supports dual spatial streams over such long distances (you can't have multipath in open air) so afaik the 1550 only do 150Mbps association rate (=dual channel with one spatial stream). That means 75Mbps real speed.
I couldn't test a 1550 yet so don't take my word for official statement but that's what I'm thinking.
the wireless links will always be both up and they can be on different channels.
That will then mean that it will be "as if" the remote switch was connected directly to the central switch (where WLC is connected) as the WLC tunnels traffic all the way. So you could do a spanning-tree config on this one I guess to block the port onthe remote switch.
Regards,
Nicolas

Load balancing and Failover

Hello,
We are wondering how load-balancing and failover of tpcall() work with
WTC:
The scenario:
We have one WLS Domain and two Tuxedo Domains. The Tuxedo Domains offer
the same set of services.
In the bdmconfig.xml, we specify connection_policy as 'ON_STARTUP' for
both Remote Tuxedo Domains. We also Import (T_DM_IMPORT) the same
Tuxedo Service from both Tuxedo Domains.
Questions:
1. Is there any load-balancing of the tpcall between the two Domains? If
so, is it round-robin? If round-robin, what determines the order?
2. If it is ONLY Failover, what determines the order of the tpcall? And,
is the Failover automatic? Or do we need to code for retry on failure?
3. ON_DEMAND vs ON_STARTUP: Does ON_DEMAND drop the connection to the
remote domain upon tpterm? And does ON_STARTUP use a pool of
TuxedoConnection objects?
4. Are there any configuration parameters for
'max_number-of_connections? What determines how many simultaneous
connections can be made?
Thanks,
Suresh Mohan.

Hi Suresh,
The following are my answers to your questions.
Suresh Mohan wrote:
Hello,
We are wondering how load-balancing and failover of tpcall() work with
WTC:
The scenario:
We have one WLS Domain and two Tuxedo Domains. The Tuxedo Domains offer
the same set of services.
In the bdmconfig.xml, we specify connection_policy as 'ON_STARTUP' for
both Remote Tuxedo Domains. We also Import (T_DM_IMPORT) the same
Tuxedo Service from both Tuxedo Domains.
Questions:
1. Is there any load-balancing of the tpcall between the two Domains? If
so, is it round-robin? If round-robin, what determines the order?Yes there is a load balancing between two remote Tuxedo TDomain Gateways.
The algorithm is random, not RR. Over time this should give equal
opportunities to both remote TDomain.
>
2. If it is ONLY Failover, what determines the order of the tpcall? And,
is the Failover automatic? Or do we need to code for retry on failure?The load balancing is always there. The failover is automatic. When a
connection to a remote TDomain encountered a problem (ie network) the remote
domain will be put on retry open connection (in ON_STARTUP) and the load
balancing will not select it until the connection re-established.
However, the tpcall() that encountered the error will not be retried to send
to different destination. It is up to the application to decide whether it
want to resend. Any requests called after the error will not select the
failed Remote TDomain.
>
3. ON_DEMAND vs ON_STARTUP: Does ON_DEMAND drop the connection to the
remote domain upon tpterm? And does ON_STARTUP use a pool of
TuxedoConnection objects?TPTERM() only terminate your application session to WTC. WTC still maintain
a secured T-session to remote Tuxedo TDomain. WTC does not use a pool of
TuxedoConnection Objects, the object stored in the JNDI refers to WTC.
>
4. Are there any configuration parameters for
'max_number-of_connections? What determines how many simultaneous
connections can be made?No. As described in #3, there is no need to use connection pool in WTC. WTC
uses session and virtual circuit design concept as Tuxedo TDOMAIN, the
logical pool is created/destroyed dynamically. That is the reason why you
can have a lot of TPACALL() outstanding at the same time. (The limitation is
the availability system resource.)
>
>
Thanks,
Suresh Mohan.Regards,
Hong-Hsi :-)

Linksys RV082 Load Balancing and VPN

We have 3 offices connected by VPN and are currently using RV082 routers for the endpoints. The 2 branch offices have service from a small wireless ISP in the area. We have recently brought DSL in to the main office in addition to the wireless ISP. There are about 20 workstations in the main office, and 2-5 in each of the other offices.
Right now we have the RV082 at the main office configured to use the DSL as the primary service and fail over to the wireless ISP in event of issues with the DSL. What we would like to do now is have load balancing for the main office and have the VPN endpoints run specifically on the wireless ISP (much lower latency than going through the DSL), failing over to the DSL when required. The ideal situation would allow us to specify traffic (ie - web, and email) for a 'preferred' WAN port so that it uses, for example the DSL circuit for email traffic until the DSL circuit goes down, then email traffic is automatically moved over.
I know that you can set rules in the load balancing configuration of the RV082 to direct traffic out a specific port. When I have configured these in the past for testing, the rules were not removed when the connection failed over, so any traffic that had a rule configured for the failed port stopped working.
All of the routers are running firmware version 2.0.0.19-tm.
I'm sorry if this is a scenario that has been addressed before, but I haven't been able to find any answers. If I missed it, please feel free to point me in the right direction. Is it possible to configure the load balancing rules so that they fail over correctly on the RV082? If so, please post steps for me to follow if you can. If this is not possible on the RV082, please make suggestions for which router we should install at the main office to make this scenario work properly.
Thanks for any help!

Thank you for the quick response. Perhaps I didn't explain the situation very well in my first post. We are currently using the Smartlink Backup functionality, and it is working correctly.
We would like to move to the Load Balance mode, because this will allow us to take better advantage of having two providers. The Auto Load Balance works fine except for certain sites, like a banking site. I understand that the way around this is to create a Protocol Binding rule, but is there a way to have Protocol Binding rules termporarily removed or modified in the event of a WAN failure, so that traffic will not get stuck being sent out to a service provider that is down? I have tested the Load Balance feature and created some Protocol Binding rules as a test. For example, I bound all HTTP (port 80) traffic to WAN1, then unplugged WAN1 to simulate an outage. All HTTP traffic stopped working after I unplugged WAN1, but all other traffic seamlessly continued to function as if nothing had changed.
Thanks!

WAN Load-Balancing and multi VLAN design

Hello,
I need some help to define the design of a specifi LAN-WAN network.
1) There are 2 independant WAN entries (they have their own ISP-managed router)
2) I need to load-balanced the requests over the 2 WAN
3) If possible, the load-balancer must be redundant (GLBP ?)
4) On the LAN itself, there must be 15 different VLAN
5) We also need a DHCP solution (also redundant if possible) to provide IP to these VLAN, with unique gateway (the load-balancer)
What do I need to implement this configuration ?
And is it possible to configure with as much GUI as possible ?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Dear Mike,
Thank you and welcome to the Small Business Support Community.
It is possible to configure load balancing with NAT, however in this case, remote internet servers will potentially see sessions from remote hosts behind the SRP541W coming from different source IP addresses (the WAN IP addresses), causing the sessions to be reset unexpectedly.
The Policy Routing setting you setup is exactly what I would do in your case.
I hope these answer your question and please do not hesitate to reach me back if there is anything else I may assist you with.
Kind regards,
Jeffrey Rodriguez S. .:|:.:|:.
Cisco Customer Support Engineer
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Load balancing and High Availability topology

Our Forms 6i client-server application currently runs on Citrix farm of 20 Windows 2000 boxes (IBM Blade Servers 2 CPU and 2 Gig Memory).
Application supports 2000 users.
We are moving to AS 10g r2, forms 10g and the goal is to use same hardware, 20 Windows boxes (or less), for intranet web deployment.
What will be our best choices for application Load balancing and High Availability?
Hardware load balancer, Web Cache, mod-oc4j? Combinations?
Any suggestions, best practices, your experience?

Gerd, I understand, that you are running 10g web forms through the browser, but using Citrix for deployment. This means that in addition to Application Server and Forms runtime sessions, it will be separate browser session opened for each user. What the advantage of this configuration?
Michael, we are aware, that Citrix is not supported by Oracle as a deployment platform. That only means that prior contacting Oracle Support we have to reproduce the problem in standard environment. It was never been a problem to reproduce problem :) We were using Citrix as a deployment platform for Forms 6i client/server for 4 years, but now we are forced to upgrade to 10g.
We are familiar with various Load balancing options available. The question is which option is the most "workable" in our case.

2 ISP load balancing and redundancy

Hello!!
Our small company has about 40 branches spreaded within city. Branches are connected by optic wire supplied by our ISP. So in ISP our branches are located in one VLAN. From every branch we created VPN tunnel to our server room in central office. Central office is like a cetner point. If optic wire fails to central office, there would no VPN tunnels and no network to all branches. Moreover, all the traffice goes through central office.
Now we decided to pave one more optic line to our central office. And that will increase bandwidth and redundancy.
Private network topology: There are no default gateways and ip-addresses. For examle, at first branch I will plug computer directly into media converter and at the second branch plug another computer to the media converter. After that this two computers became in one network. And can assign any ip addresses to them.
What I have: our firewall do enough work, don't want to overload it. But we have some free ports in our new cisco 3750. The question is how to do load balancing and redundanccy? Can it do load balancing according to traffic? And how load balance incoming traffic? For example, connection was established from branche's router, how this router will choose through which line make connection? By the way, at all branches we use noisy cisco
3700 series routers.

Sorry for upping 1 year old threat.
We talked to our Network Provider. They said "these two cables are coming from two different places, so there is no way to use etherchannel. You must use active-standby solution."
Relying on STP we just put two cables into 3750 stack. But with default STP settings, connection was very unstable, many packet losses and disconnections. So we found easy solution with "flex links", making one interface backup of the other. And only now I recognized that this is not a failover solution. Because, if network beyond media converter will down, link from media converter to switch would still up.
What could I do to make our L2 WAN redundant? Are there any additional STP settings.

Discussion on load-balance and load-sharing

Hi, I found a article, which discuss the difference between load-balance and load-sharing. I think the explanation is pretty good, please see below. But I still have a question: how can we decide to choose one the both balance in the production environment ? Thank you
"In short, load balancing tries to distribute traffic evenly over multiple paths, whereas, load sharing intends to do it (for the lack of a better term) equally. True load balancing is difficult to achieve. For example, let's say there were two links (100 mbps and 300 mpbs) and a router needed to send out 600 mbps of traffic. Load balancing would distribute the traffic evenly, sending 300 mbps on each link. On the contrary, load sharing would divide the traffic equally based on the available resources, sending 200 mbps on the slower link and 400 mbps on the faster one. "

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That's not how Cisco uses the terms, and generically they are often used almost interchangeably.
Cisco uses load balancing as the catch all for how a single L3 device routes across multiple paths to the same destination. Equal metrics or equal actual load distribution are not required. Most often, load balancing will be discussed with ECMP, but unequal path loading balancing will include Cisco's proprietary IGPs, such as EIGRP.
Cisco uses load sharing when using multiple paths when a single L3 devices doesn't normally route across multiple paths or multiple L3 devices are involved. Cisco load sharing discussions usually revolve around BGP.
Generically, I would say load balancing has more of a dynamic aspect to it, i.e. something is trying to actively balance traffic across multiple paths, while load sharing might mean multiple paths are utilized but not actively dynamically balanced.
I'm unsure what's your question with a production environment.

Load Balancing and Failover with 10G Standard Edition

Hi,
I am new to Oracle Replication and need some help setting up replication for load balancing and failover. Is this possible using Oracle 10G Standard Edition? I plan on having all updates done on the master site and both databases will be for reads. In case of failure of the master site, I would need to be able to failover to the other database.
Also, if anyone knows of any documention for Basic Replication in 10G, please let me know.
Thanks.

Simple nnapshot replication of data would require significant manual effort to configure to load balance or failover. One the load balancing side, you would generally be limited to to static load balancing-- assigning half the users to one machine and the other half of the users to the other machine, regardless of who is actively using the machine. Failover would be a significant manual effort, particularly to bring the failed machine back into the cluster. You would be implementing the guts of multi-master replication.
Frankly, if you actually have a system which is valuable enough to need load balancing and disaster recovery, I'm going to wager that it will be far cheaper even in the short run to buy more boxes and/or enterprise edition licenses than to try to implement this sort of thing yourself. In the long run, it will be far cheaper, since it will be far easier to maintain. Building all this yourself would probably be penny wise and pound foolish.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
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ISA570-Load balancing and Losing packets

I am load balancing two isp's. One isp is fine, but the other I have very high packet loss when pinging the corresponding wan interface from any machine located outside our network. During the packet loss, I cannot https to our firewall from outside our network, but I can rdp using a different address on that same isp and ping another machine located inside our network, it seems only the wan interface is having the issues. Our isp uses icmp to our wan interface and they started noticing the loss the other day, again the other isp loses no packets. I have no issues with clients losing connection from that isp so it looks like it is an issue from outside in only on that wan interface.
I have a spare ISA and that is experiencing no packet loss when using another ip from the problem isp on it's wan interface. The isa's have the same configuration and when I tried moving completely to the backup isa it continued with the same issue. Upgraded to a later firmware, still the same issue. I even took a laptop and put it on our switch that is before the isa and gave it a static public address and I can ping it with no problem from the outside. I can also ping from the laptop to the wan port of the prod isa that is losing packets and it replies as it should, which I assumed would lose packets if it were the isa having issues, but it didn't.
I know this has nothing to do with Cisco security services as on the backup firewall it was still losing packets when we moved the connections over to it.
I can ping from inside my network to the public wan address with no loss when outside machines are having problems.
I can ping the problem wan address from a laptop or from isa(IP = 64.x.x.42) to isa(IP = 64.x.x.45) with no packet loss.
This is a head scratcher and I need some real help here.

Never figured this one out. However, I was able to figure out how this starts. A couple of weeks ago we had an issue with an ISP and we disabled that interface during the day and re-enabled at the end of the day and thats when we noticed ICMP breaks to other ISP.. I don't know why but the ISP we renabled we can ping just fine, but the other one always has issues. The only fix is to enable link failover detection and both WAN interfaces become pingable again.
Now, we use load balancing and one issue we are experiencing is that randomly both WAN interfaces go down and I can confirm this with a ping utility we use off site that pings both WAN interfaces and also each ISP gateway they are connected to. When this happens the ISP's gateways are reachable and neither WAN interface on the ISA are. I am still on .15 version of the firmware, because there were too many issues with newer releases. Is this a known issue?

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