IP assignment for virtual webhosting

Mike,

this was a bit misunderstandable as i wrote a few hours ago. traffic
management is most important for different services than for different
vservers.
our "add an module..." requires a) to write such a module (i do not have
the time and the knowledge to do so) and b) doesn't solve the problems
pointed out here before (ip paket sizes for expample).

if you could have a look to our server farm you would see that the "adding
hardware" aproach is not our way.

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                    Smoorenburg          To:     henning.brauer at bsmail.de                                                       
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According to henning.brauer at bsmail.de:
> Yes, that exactly the way we do it. If I imagine the power needed to
> implement this its nearly impossible to reimpleent for ONLY name-based
> Virtual Hosts.

Add an apache log module that measures the actual bytes sent out
(file size + HTTP headers) - accounting problem solved.

> And if you think of Bandwith management - i don't see any
> way to do this on an per name-basis, only per ip (and service) is
possible
> as far as I know. To use Bandwidth mangement on named vhosts-basis, you
> would have to read out the FULL ip-header and service-specific headers on
> the router...i think this is not possible without enormous CPU-power and
> would give high delays on the router.

Use the Apache module mod_bandwidth, or something similar.

People tend to buy and install enormous amounts of hardware, solving
problems by adding more boxes. While fixing the software is simpler,
easier and faster.

Mike.