pf (+ relayd?) as lvs replacement

[Mohacsi Janos]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, CZUCZY Gergely wrote:

> Hello,
>
> A somewhat similar can be achived using relayd, but this kind of load 
> balancing shouldn't be done on L2/L3 level. This kind of load balancing 
> should be done on Layer7 with some application level load balancers. 
> That way you can also do more then this (like sanitizing the requests 
> before they get to the actual servers).
>
> Some projects exists out there to do this, like pound[1], or also nginx has
> some features for this propose, and even apache2.2 is being extended into this
> direction.

Most of these projects don't have IPv6 support, whil pf has IPv6 support 
builtin. We are using pf for load balancing HTTP for more than a years 
now, successfully.

Best Regards,


Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning and Projects
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
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