On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 07:25:25PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 01:53:45PM +0100, Kobus Bensch wrote: > > Thank you Nenad for the answer. This is exactly my situation and a pity > > there is no solution. Not really sure how to proceed with this. > > Could you check with your provider what method their customers chose > usually ? It's very possible that they're distributing a kernel patch > for a number of OSes, or that they're relying on someone else's patch. > For example I remember an old patch from Huawei to do something a bit > related for LVS. Possibly some code exists somewhere otherwise they > wouldn't be proposing this option.
By the way, you can propose them to evaluate haproxy's proxy protocol. It's being adopted by a significant number of products now since it's very easy to implement, and even Amazon's ELB supports it. For this kind of usage it is much easier than having to patch kernels! Willy
