Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:51:52 +0100 From: no name <britneyfreek@googlemail.com> To: Kevin <k@kevinkevin.com> Cc: "freebsd-pf@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pf@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question about round robin Message-ID: <-3431979369893017739@unknownmsgid> In-Reply-To: <00a201ca5ef6$7a4f3ee0$6eedbca0$@com> References: <00a201ca5ef6$7a4f3ee0$6eedbca0$@com>
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i am not quite sure but i assume pf does no availabililtty checks as responses from systems behind an address might take too long... - regards Am 06.11.2009 um 16:34 schrieb "Kevin" <k@kevinkevin.com>: > Hello, > > > > I am curious about simple round robin load balancing w/ PF. I see > how simple > it is to setup within the FreeBSD configuration file, but have a > fairly > simple question. > > Does PF detect if one of the addresses in the "pool" is not > responsive? Or > does it just blindly send traffic to all the addresses in the pool > regardless? Is there some sort of heartbeat functionality or status > check > perhaps? Has anyone accomplished something along these lines? Load > balancing > would be pretty useless if I couldn't take a server out of the pool > without > having to re-configure PF every time. > > > Any comments are appreciated! > > > Thanks, > > > Kevin > www.stardothosting.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-pf@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pf > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-pf-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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