I'd just like to say that I've done work for Gagan before and he has always been very reliable. I suggested that he put up the bounty for the work as it's outside of my skill set. It doesn't sound like a very big job to me, for someone who knows the code base. An easy $1000 for the right person.
Mike * on the Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:16:11PM +0000, Gagan Prakash wrote: > I run a small company and we are planning on setting up Exim servers on > Amazon EC2. We would like to take advantage of their Elastic Load Balancer > technology. Unfortunately this would mean that we would miss out of the true > client IP and Exim would receive the load balancer IP as the client IP. > > One solution that Amazon has adopted is the Proxy Protocol. It appears that > various server products including other MTA's have also started providing > support for this protocol. > > There is documentation on the Proxy Protocol here: > > http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt > http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/Termin > ologyandKeyConcepts.html#proxy-protocol > > I also see that there is a current request for support for Proxy Protocol to > be added to Exim: > http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394 > > I was hoping that this project was of interest to the community and that I > could interest an Exim developer to take on this project. I would be happy > to offer up a bounty/reward of $1000 for this work if it is done such > that: > > 1. It enables server side proxy-protocol support in Exim > 2. Is available as a package for Exim 4.82 for CentOS 6.X x64 > 3. And is accepted in the Exim mainline. > > Please let me know if you have any questions. > > Thanks > Gagan -- Mike Cardwell https://grepular.com/ http://cardwellit.com/ OpenPGP Key 35BC AF1D 3AA2 1F84 3DC3 B0CF 70A5 F512 0018 461F XMPP OTR Key 8924 B06A 7917 AAF3 DBB1 BF1B 295C 3C78 3EF1 46B4
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