Technical requirements

In this chapter, we'll be exploring load balancer functions. As we work through the examples later in this book, you can follow along and implement our example configurations in your current Ubuntu host or virtual machine. However, to see our load balancing example in action, you'll need a number of things:

• At least two target hosts to balance a load across
• Another network adapter in the current Linux host
• Another subnet to host the target hosts and this new network adapter

This configuration has a matching diagram, Figure 10.2, which will be shown later in this chapter that illustrates how all this will bolt together when we're done.

This adds a whole level of complexity to the configuration of our lab environment. When we get to the lab section, we'll offer some alternatives (downloading a pre-built virtual machine is one of them), but you may just choose to read along. If that's the case, I think you&apos...