Any suggestions for a layer 3 load ablancer for 12, as relayd doesnt work anymore

[Mark Blackman]

> On 14 Jan 2019, at 16:23, Mark Blackman <mark at exonetric.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 14 Jan 2019, at 16:15, Pete French <petefrench at ingresso.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> So, until the middle of this afternoon I was, doing my load balancing using
>> relayd from ports and PF. My own fault for not checking, but I upgraded
>> one of the firewall pair to 12 and then discovered that the relayd port is
>> no longer available.
>> 
>> Am now puzzling over solutions to this - I dont really want to stay on
>> 11 forevere. Moving to OpenBSD to get their PF and relayd is a bit of
>> an uncomfortable idea as we gain a lot from having one OS everywhere that
>> people know, so does anyone have any suggestions ?
>> 
>> PF round robin is not good enough for this as I have some dynamic problems
>> which indicate when a node is up or down. Relayd will check these, but the
>> basic PF wil not as far as I know.
>> 
>> What do other people do ?
> 
> Use HAproxy for basic load balancing and Traefik for more sophisticated usage. Not sure how you get seamless failover with either though. That was the nice thing about relayd/PF
> 
> - Mark

Forgot, Nginx and Apache are technically options as well.

- Mark