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Date:      Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:44:32 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvs commit: ports/net Makefile ports/net/l4ip Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <200602171844.k1HIiXg8047329@repoman.freebsd.org>

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leeym       2006-02-17 18:44:32 UTC

  FreeBSD ports repository

  Modified files:
    net                  Makefile 
  Added files:
    net/l4ip             Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist 
  Log:
  - add l4ip-v1.0.b294, the L4 health check daemon for IPFILTER.
  
  The idea is that IPFilter in its current state can already do a simple L4
  round-robin in its NAT rules. However, it does not detect or sense when a
  service and/or host is down. It will continue to send requests to a downed
  service/host.
  
  However, IPFilter lets us add and remove rules on-the-fly so it should be
  possible to build a daemon that lets you specify "clusters". In each cluster
  you would specify its members/hosts and services. As well as a health-check
  for the service to determine its current state.
  
  Once a service was deemed "up" we would add a Round-Robin rule to the NAT
  table, and naturally, the reverse once we detect a service as being "down".
  
  In addition to this, this program can optionally add ipf rules to log for RST
  (reset) packets coming from the members of your clusters. In the situations
  where the software/port goes down, but the host itself is still working, we
  would detect failure instantly. (Since the forwarded connections to the service
  would trigger a RST packet back). If this option is enabled, l4ip spawns the
  "ipmon" command to monitor for the "log" entries given when such a packet is
  detected. l4ip will then mark the service down. This is an add-on feature and
  is strictly not necessary for functional usage. It is currently only supported
  for TCP.
  
  WWW:            http://www.lundman.net/unix/l4ip.php
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.1624    +1 -0      ports/net/Makefile
  1.1       +31 -0     ports/net/l4ip/Makefile (new)
  1.1       +3 -0      ports/net/l4ip/distinfo (new)
  1.1       +24 -0     ports/net/l4ip/pkg-descr (new)
  1.1       +12 -0     ports/net/l4ip/pkg-plist (new)



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