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Hello,

 

 

I'm sure this topic has come up previously, however I'm just curious if
FreeBSD's PF + round robin load balancing to tcp port 80 has any status
checking built in.

 

That is to say, if server1's tcp 80 is not even responsive, does PF still
send traffic to it? It would be great if this was built in. If not (as I
suspect), what alternatives could be had to implement some sort of status
checking, while still using PF's round-robing directive?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

Kevin