you're right but this works only with a single protocol managed by haproxy, doesn't it ? My idea was to have an ACL for each of these standard protocols in order to have a specific backend.
Regards, Emmanuel *Adoptez l'éco-attitude.* N'imprimez ce courriel que si c'est vraiment nécessaire 2012/5/7 Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu> > Hi Emmanuel, > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:02:07AM +0200, Emmanuel Bézagu wrote: > > As haproxy already accepts to reverse proxy ssl and ssh, would it be > > possible to support protocols as OpenVPN, tinc or XMPP ? > > Haproxy will work with any TCP-based protocol which does not report > addresses or ports inside the payload. For instance, it works well > on SSH, SMTP, LDAP, RDP, PeSIT, SSL, etc... but not on FTP, most RPC, > etc... In general, any protocol which can easily be translated will > work. I think this is the case for all those above, but you might > prefer testing to be sure. > > Regards, > Willy > >