On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:42:24AM +0200, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:54:58 +0800 > Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Linden Varley wrote: > > > Anyone know of any load balancing software for OpenBSD that can do > > > direct-server return? (our load balancers (openbsd boxes) are > > > co-located and we pay for all data bandwidth). > > > > hoststated? > > > No, hoststated won't do DSR yet, neither will any load balancers on > OpenBSD. > DSR needs Layer 2 trickery that is not possible with OpenBSD. > Maybe someday, it is on my todo-list if I find a clean way to do it. >
i don't like the idea about "DSR", it sounds like an evil hack to get some performance at the wrong place. it is better to focus on improving the pf/network stack performance itself and to be able to do traffic filtering and normalization on the loadbalancers. reyk
