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Originally posted by Superterrorizer
Just curious what you mean by "Stock P4 dell" I don't know of any "stock" server (Stock meaning no frills) that's going to push 100mbit nevermind 250mbit. (This is purely based on hard drive I/O.)
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Yes, when I say 'stock' I mean basic, no-frills boxes. I could have been more specific there.
When you're dealing with LVS action, the packets never reach the disk subsystem. The packet gets read in, header modified, and right out the other network card. Very efficient.
Now if it had to hit the disk, that WOULD slow things up substantially... but it's not an issue in this case, unless you're talking about disk subsystem performance required to push 250mbit of actual content. That's a case where load balancing pretty much becomes a requirement... 10 boxes with the same data pushing out 250mbit aggregate only requires a max capacity of 30mbit, and any cheapo beige box with IDE drives can handle that.