The only reason we need DSR is our load-balancers are co-located and we
have a limit on data usage so the connection needs to be offloaded to
the server/client and not proxied as this would get quite expensive with
the traffic flowing through our co-location pipe.
Might have to move to Linux with BalanceNG for the time-being.
Cheers,
Linden.
Reyk Floeter wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:42:24AM +0200, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:54:58 +0800
Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Linden Varley wrote:
Anyone know of any load balancing software for OpenBSD that can do
direct-server return? (our load balancers (openbsd boxes) are
co-located and we pay for all data bandwidth).
hoststated?
No, hoststated won't do DSR yet, neither will any load balancers on
OpenBSD.
DSR needs Layer 2 trickery that is not possible with OpenBSD.
Maybe someday, it is on my todo-list if I find a clean way to do it.
i don't like the idea about "DSR", it sounds like an evil hack to get
some performance at the wrong place. it is better to focus on
improving the pf/network stack performance itself and to be able to do
traffic filtering and normalization on the loadbalancers.
reyk
