Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 30 March 2007 00:50, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Logging and blocking can all be done at the proxy, though. No need to > transfer the remote IP to the internal server. Logging can be done at the proxy. Blocking - maybe not. IP address based restrictions on service for

Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-29 Thread Steve Greenland
On 28-Mar-07, 19:13 (CDT), Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However they do not reduce the value of the IP address as a tracking > mechanism. I find it interesting to note the geographic distribution of > requests and like to have the option to block requests from areas that cause >

Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 29 March 2007 05:44, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or are you asking how the internal server keeps track of the remote IP > address? It shouldn't. Any webservice that uses the (supposed) client IP > for anything other than amusement value is broken, given NAT and client >

Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 21:51, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:11:51AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Has this problem been solved for a protocol other than HTTP? In theory > > you could have a user-space TCP stack that sends data to the

Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Greenland
On 27-Mar-07, 18:11 (CDT), Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 28 March 2007 02:20, Arnaud Cornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy which is particularly suited for high > > availability environments. It features connection persistence throug

Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-28 Thread Arnaud Cornet
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:11:51AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > How do you preserve the mapping between the origin IP address and the > connection that the web server receives? > > For HTTP the easiest solution would be to insert a header with the origin IP > that could then be logged, does the

Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-28 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:11:51AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > Has this problem been solved for a protocol other than HTTP? In theory you > could have a user-space TCP stack that sends data to the back-end server with > a source address that is the same as that of the origin. Has anyone done

Re: Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 02:20, Arnaud Cornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy which is particularly suited for high > availability environments. It features connection persistence through HTTP > cookies, load balancing, header addition, modification, deletion bot

Bug#416397: ITP: haproxy -- fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy

2007-03-27 Thread Arnaud Cornet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Arnaud Cornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: haproxy Version : 1.2.17 Upstream Author : Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ * License : GPL Description : fast and reliable load balan