FreeBSD LVS replacement

[Michael Loftis]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:47 PM, dweimer <dweimer at dweimer.net> wrote:

> Perhaps CARP is what you are looking for
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/carp.html>

Not even remotely close to the same thing.  LVS is a kernel level load
balancer/director.  Combined with some userspace to keep the table of
live real servers up to date it makes a very robust, very high speed
load balancer for HTTP and non HTTP applications.  IDK of any kernel
side stuff in FreeBSD, and I don't know that there are any "general
purpose" replacements like LVS is but for HTTP - varnish, nginx, and
HAProxy.  HAProxy can also do things other than HTTP.  But these are
all user space proxies.  Not lower level like LVS where it doe packet
rewriting/NAT.



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