[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Michael C]

On Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 12:04:01 AM UTC-5, Hunter Goatley wrote:
> On 1/14/2021 10:35 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: 
> > 
> > TCPIP/Services is a "VMS only product", but it is based on a lot 
> > of Unix code, as I understand. Don't know about Multinet, but why 
> > would you write a TCPIP-stack from scratch?
> Bernie Volz was the chief architect of TCPware and co-founder of Process 
> Software. He wanted a stack that ran as efficiently as possible on 
> VAXen, and the kernel was written from scratch in MACRO-32. The TCPware 
> kernel was faster than MultiNet's kernel when we received it from TGV. 
> We've made numerous speed enhancements to the MultiNet kernel since 
> then, and I don't know if anyone has really done speed tests in quite a 
> few years.
> -- 
> Hunter 
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> Hunter Goatley, Process Software, http://www.process.com/ 
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I did them and TCPware is still faster than multinet.