Re: HAPROXY and POUND X-FORWARD

Ravi Kumar <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:00:55 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.load-balancing.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Chris,
  You can try nginx in that case. Its open source and has many features that
you are looking for.

More information at http://nginx.net/

Thanks,
-Ravi
http://netlb.blogspot.com


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Chris Kirby <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I am also open to trying other open source load balancing solutions. Our
> requirements are:
>
> SSL termination on load balancer
> HTTP cookie session persistence
> Node health checking
> Automatically take failed server out of pool
> Detailed logging
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Kirby
> To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
> Sent: Mon Nov 30 16:21:58 2009
> Subject: Re: [load balancing] HAPROXY and POUND X-FORWARD
>
> We need cookie persistence and last I had checked, pound did not support
> this.
>
> Chris.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> To: Load Balancing Mailing List <[email protected]>
> Sent: Mon Nov 30 16:12:08 2009
> Subject: Re: [load balancing] HAPROXY and POUND X-FORWARD
>
> Curious, why even bother with HA-Proxy? Why not just do the balancing +
> termination on Pound?
>
>
>
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>]
> On Behalf Of Chris Kirby
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 12:54 PM
>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [load balancing] HAPROXY and POUND X-FORWARD
>
>
>
>
> We are using Pound to terminate incoming SSL traffic and then we forward to
> the packet to a HAPROXY server for load balancing.
>
>
>
> Pound sees in the client IP address of our external web browser in its
> logs, which is great,, but when Pound forwards the traffic to HAPROXY,
> HAPROXY sees the source IP as being Pound and not the real external IP
> address.
>
>
>
> Is it possible for Pound to send the real source IP address to haproxy and
> have haproxy display that IP address in its logs instead?
>
>
>
> Basically, I want haproxy to see the x-forwarded IP address.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Chris.
>
>
>
>
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