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                         Tomorrow (Wednesday) night!

                           MindSource BOF #40

         We're turning 40!  Our event has been running since 1994
         and we continue to bring great folks from our field to
         people the podium!

         This month we are featuring two previous BOF speakers, Marcos
         Della of CStone, and Scott Heyer of Hotmail.  A detail of the
         presentation follows.

       === Load Balancing Web Sites at ISO layers 2.5, 3, & 4 ====

                      with Marcos Della / Cstone
                      and Scott Heyer   / Hotmail
                      and Chad Jenison / Resonate

                       Wednesday, August 23th 2000

   Marcos Della of Cstone will speak on a variety of solutions currently
   in use.  He will talk about services such as Inktomi/Akamai.  Following
   this Marcos will go into Content-smart switching; the ability for a
   device to balance load based on packet content.   These are getting
   easier to configure.  There will be a brief discussion of other
   solutions in place such as F5 and Big IP.   Marcos has also /promised/
   to bring a brand spanking new Cisco 11000 switch (Alteon) which he
   received for evaluation.

   Scott will talk about traditional Cisco Local Director architecture
   and compare that to ASLB (Accelerated Server Load Balancing) as used
   in the 6K series switches.  These switches will work with Cisco or any
   other routers.  He will delve into the hardware briefly to allow an
   understanding of the mechanics of the switch.   He will review the
   software, basic system configuration, and commands.  From this point
   he will delve into theory, what the 6K is supposed to do, and what you
   can actually do with it.

   Chad will describe the Resonate product and address issues of application
   layer load redirection and balancing.  He will talk about Resonates
   visibility into the networking layers, and describe in depth the Internet
   Services Management (ISM) facility in Resonate.

   We'll all hang out late for drinks, etc

BOF Particulars:
    Where: Michaels At Shoreline (restaurant near the golf course in SL park)
    Addr:  2960 No. Shoreline Blvd., Mt View 650.962.1014
    Date:  Wednesday, August 23th 2000
    Time:  6:00 Happy hour - no host bar
           7:30 BOF Begins

    There will be an abundance of great food, and great people. This
    is an opportunity to network, meet your peers, and bone up on some
    essential leading-edge technical knowledge.

==> All about BOFs :
    MindSource organizes these semi-monthly 'Bird's of a Feather' get
    togethers (That's "BOF") for Unix system admins and others interested
    in Internet and Web related technologies, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
    The events are FREE and open to the public. We do ask that you please
    RSVP...  [ so we know can provide an abundance of hors d'oevres ]

==> MindSource Opportunities :
    We currently have over 130 (one hundred thirty openings), both permanent
    and contract, for Unix Systems Administrators, Network Engineers,
    and Web Engineers throughout the Silicon Valley area.

    All of our permanent and contract opportunities are available on our web
    pages, or by sending a blank email message to: jobs@mindsrc.com.  For
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==> More Info: Check out this page for more information, and a map
   to the BOF site: http://www.mindsrc.com/bof.html

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    in the body of the email

==> Following please find a list of MindSource BOF's -- past and future

    BOF #40 * July 26 Design rudiments for two and three tiered web sites
    Marcos Della (Cstone)

    BOF #38 * May 22 Even more perl
    Randal Swartz (Stonehenge consulting)

    BOF #37 * Mar 22 Even more perl
    JT McDuffie (PLX Technolgies)

    BOF #36 * Feb 22 An Introduction to Perl Regular Expressions
    Warren Belfer (sun); JT McDuffie (PLX Technolgies)

    BOF #35 * Nov 99 Exploring the Cisco IOS - LIVE ROUTER LAB !
    Scott Heyer (Microsoft); Ulf Zimmerman (Inktomi) Wedge Martin (Mindsource)

    BOF #34 * Oct 99 Halloween Boooo(f)  Wild Wild WANS : Frame Delay
    Bowen (Cheetah) Goletz

    BOF #33 * How not to be SOL with SQL
    Greg Junell (Cstone); Mike Hennahane (NetTempo)

    BOF #32 * Web Server Performance tuning
    Robert Harker (Harker Systems)

    BOF #31 * Feb 99 Building IPfilters for secure networks
    * Marcos Della (Cstone) , Eric Bataller (SolSoft)

    BOF #30 * Nov 1998 * An Evening with Hal: "Perl Survival Skills"
    * Hal Pomeranz (Dear Run)

    BOF #29 * Sept 1998 * Maintaining Back-end E-commerce sites
    * K. Mig Hoffman and Steven Pierce (MindSource)

    BOF #28 * July 1998 * URL Middleware
    * Hal Pomeranz, Glen Kosaka, Rob Riepel

    BOF #27 * March 1998 *  Intro to CGI / perl scripting
    * Bill Ward, (MindSource)

    BOF #26 * February 1998 * Wireless IP
    * Alan Saldich of Metricom

    BOF #25 * Jan 1998 * Comparative Literature : Perl and TCL
    * Randal Schwartz - Brent Welch

    BOF #24 * Nov 1997 * NT administration for Unix Hacks
    * Ben Jones,  Jim Truher of Open NT

    BOF #23 * Sept 1997 * Going Postal, and SPAM
    * Strata Rose, Robert Harker

    BOF #22 * August 1997 * Java for CGI; JDBC; Java Media Framework
    * Mark Chamness, Tim Freeman

    BOF #21 * July 1997 * Reliable IP Multicast
    * Brian Whetter  - Global Cast

    BOF #20 * April 1997 * Perl CGI library
    * Bill Ward (Silicon Graphics), Robert Boucher,  and JT McDuffie

    BOF #19 * Feb 1997 * Routing with OSPF and CIDR
    * Mark Mellis (Silicon Graphics)  and Robert Harker

    BOF #18 * Nov 1996 * The Laws of Cyberspace
    * Dan Appleman and Greg Raifman (atty's)

    BOF #17 * Oct 1996 * Internet Plumbing - The Big Pipes
    * Bill Manning (IANA)  and Carl Mueller (Best)

    BOF #16 * Aug 1996 *
    Evolving Intranets, and the integration of Company-Wide Resources
    * M. Strata Rose (Synopsys)

    BOF #15 * Jul 1996 * Free BSD, Apache Server, and SSL
    * Jordan Hubbard (Walnut Creek Software), Matt Dillon, and Sameer Parekh

    BOF #14 * May 1996 * Privacy on the Internet - Cypherpunks !
    * Hugh Daniel, Derek Atkins and Sameer Parekh

    BOF #13 * Apr 1996 * Intro to Java and httpd Client-State Cookies
    * Headley Williamson (JavaSoft) and M. Strata Rose

    BOF #12 * Feb 1996
    * Developing Web interfaces for Oracle, and Oracle Data Warehousing
    * Mike McGrath (Oracle Corporation)  and Tom Blalock (Northern Telecom)

    BOF #11 * Jan 1996 * The Internet and the Law
    * Greg Raifman and Maureen Dorney (Grant Carey, et al)

    BOF #10 * Nov 1995 * Intro to Shell Programming and Perl
    * Dave Clark and Phil Cordier

    BOF #09 * Oct 1995 * WAIS - searching very large web space
    * Johnny Goldman (Synopsys), Stu Soffer, and Andrew Duquete

    BOF #08 * Aug 1995 * Intro to CGI-bin and Imagemaps
    * Chris Dow, Bob Palowoda (Sun MicroSystems)

    BOF #07 * May 1995 * IUMA, VRML, and HotJava
    * Will Hobbs (IUMA) , Kevin Long (SGI) , and Chuck McMannis (JavaSoft)

    BOF #06 * Apr 1995 * Internet Service Provision
    * Robert Berger (Internex)  and Vin Maddux

    BOF #05    * Feb 1995 * Advanced HTML Design
    * M. Strata Rose and Chris Dow

    BOF #04 * Jan 1995 * 100 Dumb Unix Sys Admin Tricks
    * Dave Clark (MindSource)

    BOF #03 * Dec 1994 * The NCSA httpd server and Solaris for Intel
    * Bob  Palowoda (Sun MicroSystems)

    BOF #02 * Nov 1994 * Firewalls and PPP
    * Robert Harker (Harker Seminars)

    BOF #01 * Oct 1994 * Perl for Unix Sys Admins
    * JT McDuffie

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