Question about round robin

[Max Laier]

On Friday 06 November 2009 17:35:26 Scott Ullrich wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Kevin <k at kevinkevin.com> wrote:
> > I've searched the freebsd-* mailing list as well as gone through the
> > handbook regarding load balancing w/ PF
> > (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html) and found no mention of any
> > kind of inherent availability checks or anything along those lines. Have
> > I missed something?
> >
> > Seems that all the options (bitmask, random, source-hash, round-robin)
> > provide for different ways to distribute traffic to the servers, but if a
> > server dies or becomes unresponsive it would compromise the pool in
> > itself. Most other load balancing solutions such as LVS can be
> > incorporated with keepalived to allow for status checking.
> >
> > I would love to know anyone who may have implemented a solution like that
> > with PF + round robin.
> 
> Take a look at relayd and slbd.

I was about to say ... http://www.freshports.org/net/relayd/

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