hi, On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:20:53PM -0700, christian johansson wrote: > I have two CARP:ed openbsd machines, firewalling a couple of linux servers > behind them. > > 3 of the linux machines run apache1 httpd:s. If need be, I can upgrade to > apache2. > I want to setup redundant httpd loadbalancing to these 3 machines from the > openbsd machines. > > I know PF can do simple round-robin balancing to these machines, but I want > something that can take the load of the apache running machines into > consideration and shape the traffic sent to them accordingly. >
the important thing is to do keep alive checks on the internal webservers. we do not support weighted round-robin or something like this yet, and i don't think that it makes much sense (except if your servers are running on really different hardware platforms). > Would it be a good idea to use apaches own loadbalancing module, the > mod_proxy_balance, and run instances of apache on the openbsd machines? no! > I'm assuming this would mean that I have to compile apache2 myself, right? > > Or can anyone suggest a better way to do this? > have look at hoststated(8) in the upcoming OpenBSD 4.1 release or in -current. http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070101200326 http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070110112446 http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070222041312 reyk
