Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:07:30 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: kevin <k@kevinkevin.com> Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pf > round robin Message-ID: <4B4F7982.3070207@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <010801ca954d$db567fe0$92037fa0$@com> References: <010801ca954d$db567fe0$92037fa0$@com>
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kevin wrote: > 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. No, there is not. PF is packet filter, not swiss army knife > 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? There is net/relayd in ports (from OpenBSD project, as PF) to things like this. Miroslav Lachman
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