Transparent load balancing

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 7/11/11 6:49 PM, Unga wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I need to implement a transparent load balancing daemon in C.
> 
> That is, the daemon accept a TCP connection, get more info from the client, and forward the communication transparently to another server to handle it.
> 
> How this could be implemented on FreeBSD? What basic primitives I should study more?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Best regards
> Unga
>


Hey up,



2 questions come to mind:

1/ "get more info from the client" -> what kind of info ?
2/ have you considered HAProxy ? It does offer a TCP mode.