[imp] load balancing

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Amith Varghese <amith@xalan.com>:

> > You would need to be more specific.  Basically everything should be easy
> > to setup with ldap except sessions.  If you can get the sessions in ldap
> > also, then you would be home free.
> 
> I would be careful here... ldap was never designed for lots of writing.... it
> excels at reading (in many cases faster than a database if tuned correctly)
> but its write performance isn't nearly as hot.

Yes, I thought of this (and posted the same) a while after my original post).

> One day OpenLDAP will support multi-master replication (basically HA LDAP
> servers) but not yet.  Netscape does support it now though.  I think Novell
> does as well.

You can use IBM Directory Server, a free download that works on aix, solaris,
linux, etc.  Very nice.  Only bad thing is their default schema is a bit
different.  Other than that it looks real nice.  It is based on some real
commerical company's ldap, but IBM rebrands it and gives it away for free,
as far as I can tell...  I'm pretty much planning on using it, since my 
ldap needs to support solaris/aix/linux, and needs multiple masters.  I think
IBM's solution is "more open" than Sun's.  OpenLDAP would be better, but it
isn't V3/MultiMaster/etc yet.

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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