Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:45:52 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IAMP servers in FreeBSD for ISP Message-ID: <44AEC800.8050509@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <cone.1152284180.962869.18477.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <cone.1152240742.658037.2598.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <20060706235712.A1171@ganymede.hub.org> <44AE5240.2080200@bitfreak.org> <cone.1152284180.962869.18477.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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Francisco Reyes wrote: > Darren Pilgrim writes: > >> FWIW, Courier-IMAP 4 has a proxy feature wherein a single front-end >> IMAP server hands does the inital authentication, then determines the >> server handling the account and invisibly hands off the connection. > > We tried that. The proxy did not seem to "hand off" the connection. > Instead for each connection there was one process running in the proxy > and another on the actual machine doing the actual serving. > > So if we had > Machine A as proxy. > > Machine B doing work > > Machine C doing work. > > We saw that if 500 connections came to B and 500 to C... there would be > 1000 connections on A. > > Is that how it's supposed to work or perhaps we didn't configure it > properly? That's exactly how it's supposed to work. After the initial authentication, A isn't doing any real work, just passing packets between the client and the backend server. -- Darren Pilgrim
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