Re: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy 1.5-dev3

2010-11-12 Thread Ross West
Hi Willy, I got a compile error on Freebsd while doing up the new port for 1.5.dev3 This machine is running Freebsd-8.1 Release, amd64 arch. -= start ... much successful compile output clipped... gcc -Iinclude -Iebtree -Wall -O2 -g -DFREEBSD_PORTS-DTPROXY -DCONFIG_HAP_CRYPT -DENABLE_POLL

Re[2]: 1.5 badly dies after a few seconds

2010-09-16 Thread Ross West
RNJ> Compiled from latest source, by make -f Makefile.bsd REGEX=pcre RNJ> DEBUG= COPTS.generic="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer" (no mgnu) Just getting caught up on this thread and the fact it's on Freebsd. :-) Since you're not using gmake, you have to watch out that the Makefile.bsd sets additional c

Re[2]: HEADSUP: Freebsd port net/haproxy-devel to update from v1.3.25 to v1.5-dev1

2010-09-08 Thread Ross West
(Ugh, sorry Willy for the direct email.) And to close out the thread: The new version is now live with version v1.5-dev2 (port version : v1.5.d2) in the ports tree. Do a portsnap update to see it and install it. WT> That's not expected since the version is hard-coded in the "VERSION" file. WT> Ei

Re[2]: HEADSUP: Freebsd port net/haproxy-devel to update from v1.3.25 to v1.5-dev1

2010-08-31 Thread Ross West
>> With the recent announcement of haproxy v1.5-dev1 with it's new >> features that I'm sure people will want to test, I'll be bringing the >> port net/haproxy-devel in line with it's name, ie: development. WT> That's great news ! However please upgrade to 1.5-dev2 to limit bug WT> reports. The

HEADSUP: Freebsd port net/haproxy-devel to update from v1.3.25 to v1.5-dev1

2010-08-27 Thread Ross West
With the recent announcement of haproxy v1.5-dev1 with it's new features that I'm sure people will want to test, I'll be bringing the port net/haproxy-devel in line with it's name, ie: development. This will cause a leapfrog of the main haproxy port as the version changes from v1.3.x to the new v

Re: HAproxy FreeBSD no Logging?

2010-03-31 Thread Ross West
JPHC> I've trouble logging my haproxy on freebsd 7.2 HA-Proxy version 1.4.2 JPHC> 2010/03/17 Are you using the net/haproxy port? Make sure the log files exist and/or use the "-C" option (create non-existent log files) for syslogd. Here's an example that works on my test system: -= /etc/rc.con

Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy-1.4.2

2010-03-18 Thread Ross West
HJ> By compiling Haproxy 1.4.2 on Opensolaris b134 I noticed a warning in HJ> dumpstats.c. I don't know for sure if this is a problem, but I thought I HJ> let you know. Got the same on Freebsd - but a touch more descriptive message. -= start gcc -Iinclude -Iebtree -Wall -O2 -g -DTPROXY -DCONFIG_

Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy-1.4.0

2010-03-04 Thread Ross West
WT> Using the following patch I can build it everywhere here without a WT> warning. Could you please test on your various FreeBSD versions, I WT> see no reason why it should change anything, it's just for the sake WT> of completeness. Compiles without error on FB 7+8! Cheers, Ross. --

Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy-1.4.0

2010-03-03 Thread Ross West
Good morning everyone, WT> I hope you don't mind that I CC the list and Krzysztof who needed WT> the line which caused the problem on your side. No problem, I just hit reply, rather than reply-all out of habit. >> However, instead of using _XOPEN_SOURCE we may use something less >> invasive (I h

Re[2]: FreeBSD Ports: bumping haproxy from v1.2.18 -> v1.4.x

2010-02-26 Thread Ross West
AH>> However, the way I think it should go in the ideal situation, is that AH>> the haproxy port should contain the latest and greatest stable release AH>> (1.4.x), and the haproxy-devel port should go to the latest experimental AH>> snapshot.. If you think keeping a 1.3.x tree alive is usefull (wh

FreeBSD Ports: bumping haproxy from v1.2.18 -> v1.4.x

2010-02-26 Thread Ross West
Opening up a bit of discussion: For those Freebsd port users out there, I'm looking to submit updates for the haproxy port to take it from it's current v1.2.18 to the new v1.4.x tree - Leapfrogging the v1.3.x tree (which is part of the haproxy-devel port). Note: I'm _not_ looking to change the h

Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy 1.4-dev5 with keep-alive :-)

2010-01-13 Thread Ross West
>> That's more of an issue with the site than a (proxy based) load >> balancer - the LB would be doing the exact same thing as the client. WT> Precisely not and that's the problem. The proxy cannot ask the user WT> if he wants to retry on sensible requests, and the cannot precisely WT> know what

Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy 1.4-dev5 with keep-alive :-)

2010-01-12 Thread Ross West
WT> It's not only a matter of caching the request to replay it, it is that WT> you're simply not allowed to. I know a guy who ordered a book at a WT> large well-known site. His order was processed twice. Maybe there is WT> something on this site which grants itself the right to replay a user's WT>

Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] haproxy 1.4-dev5 with keep-alive :-)

2010-01-12 Thread Ross West
I'll enter in this conversation as I've used (successfully) a load balancer which did server-side keep-alive a while ago. WT> Hmmm that's different. There are issues with the HTTP protocol WT> itself making this extremely difficult. When you're keeping a WT> connection alive in order to send a se

Re[2]: Geographic loadbalancing

2009-01-26 Thread Ross West
JL> I would like to hear anyone using anycast with TCP. What if two servers are JL> equal distance. Wouldn't you have a fair chance of equal 50% packets going JL> each way, killing tcp state connections. The more servers out there JL> advertising the same IP, the more likely you will have cases

Re: Geographic loadbalancing

2009-01-26 Thread Ross West
TJG> I'm told that anycast is the natural solution, but I find little on TJG> the net (or in books) on this. (Though there's more info on geodns, TJG> which I'm told is like a "poor man's anycast.") There's very little out there on anycast, as it's not really a designed function of the routing pr

Makefile.bsd patch for SS 20081208

2009-01-22 Thread Ross West
Did a full compile of the 1.3.15.7 - 20081208 snapshot on Freebsd-7.x recently, and noted that there needs to be a quick patch done on the Makefile for bsd machines. This was due to the stream_interface replacing the send data commands in the rewrite Willy did a while ago. Simple fix, and it com