On 2008-09-29, Leon Dippenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can relate to that, having load balancers fix"ing" backend services. > > If you have the time, you will probably find "pound reverse proxy" > http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ to be a nice alternative to try out in your lab. > I have pound on openbsd for several years and can recommend it for http > -> https redirects, SSL termination and back-end load balancing with > health checks (not to mention the dynamic scaling ) and and weighted > priority between backend nodes.
relayd with PF handling the redirection is lower overhead for simple load-balancing (no kernel/userland/kernel path for the packets), and the SSL termination can be a lot smarter (e.g. presenting the backend web server with the client's original IP address via transparent proxying) thanks to the integration with the rest of the OS..
