IAMP servers in FreeBSD for ISP

[Darren Pilgrim]

Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Darren Pilgrim writes:
> 
>> FWIW, Courier-IMAP 4 has a proxy feature wherein a single front-end 
>> IMAP server hands does the inital authentication, then determines the 
>> server handling the account and invisibly hands off the connection.
> 
> We tried that. The proxy did not seem to "hand off" the connection.
> Instead for each connection there was one process running in the proxy 
> and another on the actual machine doing the actual serving.
> 
> So if we had
> Machine A as proxy.
> 
> Machine B doing work
> 
> Machine C doing work.
> 
> We saw that if 500 connections came to B and 500 to C... there would be 
> 1000 connections on A.
> 
> Is that how it's supposed to work or perhaps we didn't configure it 
> properly?

That's exactly how it's supposed to work.  After the initial 
authentication, A isn't doing any real work, just passing packets 
between the client and the backend server.

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Darren Pilgrim