Mr Zesty's Brain Dump: SuperSparrow WAN load balancing

SuperSparrow WAN load balancing

As near as I can tell - SuperSparrow never evolved beyond a "proof-of-concept". I assume it works, but I ended up using a split-DNS setup. As soon as I tried to get it to connect to my Cisco router and there was no way to pass a username (only a password) for the login I stopped working with it.

Download and install [ ./configure && make && make install ] the latest packages from:

ftp://ftp.vergenet.net/pub/vanessa/

for these 3:

vanessa_logger
vanessa_adt
vanessa_socket


The update to supersparrow was never packaged for release - download the latest from CVS...

export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous:@cvs.supersparrow.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/supersparrow"

cvs login

(Get the supersparrow package, and the DENTS module)

cvs -z3 co supersparrow

cvs -z3 co dents_mod_supersparrow

Now compile supersparrow:

cd supersparrow

./autogen-sh

make && make install
 
DENTS is another abandoned project.  We'll grab the CVS copy of that too (but not too 
old because they started to mangle everything one day in October 2001) ...

export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous:@cvs.dents.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dents"

cvs login

cvs -z3 co -D 20011001 dents

mv dents_mod_supersparrow dents/modules/mod_supersparrow

cd dents

vi modules.conf
( Add mod_supersparrow to the end of the last dynamic line )
[ dynamic mod_stddb mod_recursive mod_frl mod_mysql_eza mod_odbc_eza mod_supersparrow ]

./autogen.sh --disable-ipv6 && make && make install