The only reason we need DSR is our load-balancers are co-located and we

have a limit on data usage so the connection needs to be offloaded to

the server/client and not proxied as this would get quite expensive with

the traffic flowing through our co-location pipe.
Might have to move to Linux with BalanceNG for the time-being.
Cheers,

Linden.
Reyk Floeter wrote:

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> 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  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