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

[Matt Garber]

> On Jan 15, 2019, at 9:43 AM, Pete French <petefrench at ingresso.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions - unfortunately both of those (unless I
> misread them) terminate the TCP connection and make a new one to
> the backends. I was after something where I can see the original IP
> address on the socket. Though I could put a procy in front and add
> the headers I suppse, but thats a biut more work as it involves changing
> the code.
> 
> Interested in the apache traffic manager - I hadnt come across that
> one before, tahnks,

Pete,

For what it’s worth, HAProxy has the PROXY protocol for exactly the scenario you’re describing; I’ve heard it’s very straightforward and powerful to use, although haven’t had to use it on any of my HAProxy instances which are primarily doing L7.

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/preserve-source-ip-address-despite-reverse-proxies/


Thanks,
—
Matt Garber