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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:44:19 +0100
From:      Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any suggestions for a layer 3 load ablancer for 12, as relayd doesnt work anymore
Message-ID:  <1547491459.1113392.1634330440.3BE6B9CF@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1gj4tQ-000MGi-0H@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>

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On Mon, 14 Jan 2019, at 17:15, Pete French 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 
> 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 ?

haproxy does proper failover and allows custom health checks either via
URL or real world traffic of external scripts. Traefik has lots of
container oriented features.
Dave








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