Re: [pfSense-discussion] L3 load balancer

2005-08-31 Thread Matthew Lenz
I researched this long ago and have been in touch with the author who ported lvs to freebsd. Even if it did work well it doesn't support pfsync (according to the author) which is a huge drawback. Once slbd is stable pfSense will be nearly on par with what commercial firewalls offer (with rega

Re: [pfSense-discussion] L3 load balancer

2005-08-31 Thread Scott Ullrich
On 9/1/05, Bill Marquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The scheduling is the difficult one...it really really needs to be part of > PF before we can add it (and if it requires polling servers, I can guarantee > it won't make it in). Bottom line is we aren't a load balancer, this wasn't > a terrib

Re: [pfSense-discussion] L3 load balancer

2005-08-31 Thread Bill Marquette
On 8/31/05, Randy B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scott Ullrich wrote:  > We have the source code to SLBD and have been making our own changes.Any intent to add some of the nice features ipvs offers (that slbddoesn't seem at first glance to), like multiple scheduling algorithms, UDP, persistent connec

Re: [pfSense-discussion] L3 load balancer

2005-08-31 Thread Randy B
Scott Ullrich wrote: Wait a second. I may be looking at the wrong thing. Can you send a link of what ipvs is? I ended up on the linux virual server page but now I'm wondering if your speaking of something else. We are speaking of something of the same thing; I didn't do all of my homework

Re: [pfSense-discussion] L3 load balancer

2005-08-31 Thread Scott Ullrich
On 8/31/05, Scott Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it doesn't have those, I can imagine that some of those would be > > non-trivial to add; maybe I'll have to dig in and try to make a > > 3rd-party package for pfSense. > > That's the only way around the feature freeze but after looking at

Re: [pfSense-discussion] L3 load balancer

2005-08-31 Thread Scott Ullrich
On 8/31/05, Randy B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Ullrich wrote: > > We have the source code to SLBD and have been making our own changes. > > Any intent to add some of the nice features ipvs offers (that slbd > doesn't seem at first glance to), like multiple scheduling algorithms, > UDP, p

Re: [pfSense-discussion] L3 load balancer

2005-08-31 Thread Randy B
Scott Ullrich wrote: > We have the source code to SLBD and have been making our own changes. Any intent to add some of the nice features ipvs offers (that slbd doesn't seem at first glance to), like multiple scheduling algorithms, UDP, persistent connections, and such? If it doesn't have tho

Re: [pfSense-discussion] L3 load balancer

2005-08-31 Thread Bill Marquette
We use slb for it's monitoring code in the outbound load balancing as well as for the inbound stuff.  LVS won't help us there. --Bill On 8/31/05, Randy B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just noting that the current LB package used is sldb and that it's avery much dead project, actively seeking a new ma

Re: [pfSense-discussion] L3 load balancer

2005-08-31 Thread Scott Ullrich
On 8/31/05, Randy B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just noting that the current LB package used is sldb and that it's a > very much dead project, actively seeking a new maintainer. I also note > that ipvs is in ports. Any potential (future, of course) switch? I > know the resource assigned might h

[pfSense-discussion] L3 load balancer

2005-08-31 Thread Randy B
Just noting that the current LB package used is sldb and that it's a very much dead project, actively seeking a new maintainer. I also note that ipvs is in ports. Any potential (future, of course) switch? I know the resource assigned might have to be me, but I was just curious... RB