Re: Load balancing with IPPORTFW.
Tim Fletcher (tim@night-shade.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:30:31 +0100 (GMT)
> I have been experimenting with rinetd which is a very nice userland
> solution that can redirect connections in this type of environment.
> The difficulty with this is the fact that the originating IP address
> is lost in the forwarding process and the overhead experienced with
> the necessary transitions/copies between kernel and user space.
>
> I would be interested in any commentary on this issue. Any pointers
> to related work would also be of interest.
>
I belive that there was something like this put in the 2.0.36pre series
and then taken out again because of stability issues with it. Alan Cox
mentioned it on his web diary some time (2-3 weeks ago) I think.
Tim Fletcher .~.
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