OEM Hardware Certification Program

The following OEM systems currently qualify as a "BalanceNG certified system":

	Thomas-Krenn LoadBalancer Availability: Europe http://www.thomas-krenn.com
	Celestix Load Balancer Availability: Worldwide http://www.celestix.com
	SECUDOS Load-Balancer Series (SLB) Availability: Worldwide http://www.secudos.com

Requirements for a "BalanceNG Certified System"

General Requirements:

• Operating system required to be either Linux (Kernel 2.6 mininum) or Solaris 10
• Minimum of 2 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
• Extendability to up to 6 total Gigabit Ethernet interfaces minimum
• BalanceNG benchmark (single instance) with a minimum of 50000 packets/sec (75700000 Bytes/sec) between all possible pairs of interfaces in both directions (including interface extensions)
• BalanceNG benchmark with two instances at the same time over two different interface pairs with a minimum of 50000 packets/sec (75700000 Bytes/sec) on both instances
• Minimum of 1024MB ECC memory
• Utility "wget" must be installed (Debian package "wget")
• The "mon" monitoring daemon package must be installed (Debian package "mon")
• The Debian package "libnet-dns-perl" may be installed for mon DNS monitoring
• The Net-SNMP daemon (Debian package "snmpd") needs to be present and the BalanceNG MIB must be setup for instance 0
• BalanceNG instance 0 must be started automatically on boot
• Syslog logfile rotation and deletion must be present and active

Additional requirements for Linux based systems:

• Utility "ethtool" must be installed (Debian package "ethtool")
• /etc/sysctl.conf must have "arp_ignore" set to 1 for and "arp_announce" set to 2 for "all" and all present ethernet interfaces
• Module "8021q" must be be present/available
• The "vconfig" tool must be installed/available (Debian package "vlan").

Please contact us at info@inlab.de if you intend to participate in this OEM system certification program.