On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 21:45, Roy Badami wrote: > Unfortunately (or in reality, fortunately), the prospects of being > multihomed are looking at least possible in the near future, and so > there's a significant chance I'm going to want to do load balancing > NAT, for which I believe netfilter/iptables is pretty much my only > option at present (short of shelling out lots of cash :) > > It's quite tempting to use OpenBSD as my firewall and Linux as my load > balancer, but that's an extra machine and an extra point of failure, > not to mention significant extra complexity... :(
Check out the Hut project. It's a FreeBSD implementation of the VRRP protocol, including Load Balancing via VIP's. There has been a port to OpenBSD as well (no personal experience). http://www.bsdshell.net/hut_vrrpimpl.html http://www.backwatcher.com/~matheny/ -J.
