Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:46:21 -0800 (PST)
From: adm 
subject: linux load balance cluster shipping available at xgforce.com

softare available for download at ftp.xgforce.com/pub/eCluster/2X4
It's free for commercial use. there's a 
linux port for kernel 2.2.5, and a port for sun sparc solaris 2.6/2.7


The eCluster(tm) Server provides Network Traffic Distribution, 
Network Failsafe, and Large Network Management features for 
both Internet and Intranet environment, where one could distribute 
network traffic among a large number of networked servers and 
workstations. 

eCluster(tm) is a highly scalable load-balance cluster system, 
which can be scaled up to 8X1024, which means that there are 8 
cluster groups and each group contains 1024 nodes. 

Network Traffic Distribution speeds up Internet services. Web Servers 
and FTP Servers will have distributed traffic. Network traffic will 
only be routed to the server/workstation that is up, with 
non-busy and non-crashed corresponding service(port), and with 
most available resources. Otherwise, an email alert will be sent
to a prespecified email address where administrators can be notified.
It provides better performance and faster response to net users with
fail safe assurance.

The eCluster(tm) Failsafe capability allows non-interruptible 
Internet services and Intranet services. Administrators may 
take systems down temporarily for server and/or Internet service 
maintenance without interrupting Internet or Intranet users. 
It is a true High Availability System providing large scale of 
redundancy.

Large Network Management helps administrators to view and
monitor the whole network at their finger tip. Once the network is
eClustered, statistics of each server and workstation can be seen
from a single console. Alert messages will inform administrators
any resource shortages, such as memory shortage, hard drive space
shortage, etc. Administrators will be alerted periodically if the
shortage condition or failure event is not fixed. The server or
workstation that is short in resource will be taken off-line 
automatically by Clmd and connection request will be directed to 
the server/workstation with most available resource. Administrators
can be notified by pager if you have email capable pagers, such as 
Skytel.