Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:54:16 -0500 From: "Kevin" <k@kevinkevin.com> To: "'Miroslav Lachman'" <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Question about round robin Message-ID: <00ab01ca5f01$c7afe580$570fb080$@com> In-Reply-To: <4AF453B4.8050909@quip.cz> References: <00a201ca5ef6$7a4f3ee0$6eedbca0$@com> <4AF453B4.8050909@quip.cz>
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> Tables are easily maintained by external applications / scripts - you > can update theme without reloading of the rules. So you can write some > little daemon pinging all your hosts and drop IP of unresponsive host > from the table. > Or you can write some complex system to monitor hosts resources (CPU > load, free memory, disk IO, etc.) and maintain content of the table by > this criteria so you can get balancing based on real server load. > > Miroslav Lachman Since what I'm trying to do (balance simple www traffic) isn't that complicated, I was hoping for some of this functionality to be inherent in PF. Wishful thinking I guess :) I wanted to avoid writing scripts, however, perhaps existing heartbeat / status checking solutions can be integrated in this way. Thank you
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