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OpenBSD Acquires IP Load Balancing

Posted by Hemos on from the move-closer-and-closer dept.

xarc writes "OpenBSD 3.2-current has acquired IP load balancing support via its packet filter, PF. This is a great step for those of us who prefer OpenBSD, but are dependent on other OSes and software (such as Linux's Linux Virtual Server) to provide similar functionality."

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  1. Re:uhm by sporty · · Score: 3, Informative

    Far cry nothing. Load balancers do use the roundrobin and hash algorithms.

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    ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only

  2. Re:uhm by psyconaut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    True, load balancers do use round-robin and hash algorithms....but these days a load balancer also implies some logic to stop it forwarding requests to a none-active device. i.e. some sort of keep-alive mechanism.

    But, to see this is OpenBSD is nice. I might actually consider writing some hooks myself to make it a bit more usable.

    -psy