pf > round robin

[Miroslav Lachman]

kevin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sure this topic has come up previously, however I'm just curious if
> FreeBSD's PF + round robin load balancing to tcp port 80 has any status
> checking built in.

No, there is not. PF is packet filter, not swiss army knife

> That is to say, if server1's tcp 80 is not even responsive, does PF still
> send traffic to it? It would be great if this was built in. If not (as I
> suspect), what alternatives could be had to implement some sort of status
> checking, while still using PF's round-robing directive?

There is net/relayd in ports (from OpenBSD project, as PF) to things 
like this.

Miroslav Lachman