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Date:      16 Nov 2001 14:38:35 -0000
From:      "Martin Gignac  FreeBSD " <freebsd@mobilitylab.net>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD user <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
Cc:        , ben <ben@stonehenge-net.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: load balancing solution?
Message-ID:  <20011116143835.91126.qmail@mail.mobilitylab.net>

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Hi,

I use the 'balance' port here. It uses round-robin and works fine. Extremely simple to set up and use. I think the program is only about 18Kb.

-Martin

> natd(8) can do this as well.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:40:11AM -0700, FreeBSD user wrote:
> > Sounds like ipnat will do what you need. Just port forward requests to
> > pub_ip:53 udp/tcp to your internal machines.
> > 
> > rdr xl0 pub_ip port 53 -> named_ip1,named_ip2,named_ip3 port 53
> > round-robin
> > 
> > Seems to me that rule will work for you, long as you set the gateways on
> > those named_ip's to the ipnat machine, and it'd be fine.
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, ben wrote:
> > 
> > > i need a quick load balance solution that will provide 1 ip on the front
> > > end and round robin balancing on the back end for 2 to 4 servers, as a
> > > proof of concept for a project ( and as a way to sneak FreeBSD into the
> > > workplace :) .  it sounds like i might be able to build this with nat and
> > > bind... but i think i remember that ipnat would translate requests
> > > _before_ bind would see them, whicn is the opposit of the behavior i want.
> > >
> > > i looked through the ports collection, and it looks like pen does 'real'
> > > load balancing, but for this project, i actually need round-robin (trying
> > > to demonstrate that the servers on the back end successfully share their
> > > session data)
> > >
> > > dows pen also do round-robin, or does anyone know of any other quick
> > > solutions to this problem?
> > >
> > > thanks!
> > >
> > > ben
> 
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