Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:06:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu> To: CZUCZY Gergely <gergely.czuczy@harmless.hu> Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pf (+ relayd?) as lvs replacement Message-ID: <20080425170324.H16673@mignon.ki.iif.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080425092706.2a977670@twoflower.in.publishing.hu> References: <402f78990804242338v5c2d6e95yaf73382878f8c26@mail.gmail.com> <20080425092706.2a977670@twoflower.in.publishing.hu>
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, CZUCZY Gergely wrote: > Hello, > > A somewhat similar can be achived using relayd, but this kind of load > balancing shouldn't be done on L2/L3 level. This kind of load balancing > should be done on Layer7 with some application level load balancers. > That way you can also do more then this (like sanitizing the requests > before they get to the actual servers). > > Some projects exists out there to do this, like pound[1], or also nginx has > some features for this propose, and even apache2.2 is being extended into this > direction. Most of these projects don't have IPv6 support, whil pf has IPv6 support builtin. We are using pf for load balancing HTTP for more than a years now, successfully. Best Regards, Janos Mohacsi Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning and Projects NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY Key 70EF9882: DEC2 C685 1ED4 C95A 145F 4300 6F64 7B00 70EF 9882
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