FreeBSD CARP load balancing.

[Allan Jude]

On 2017-02-21 00:55, Gleb Popov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 20/02/2017 19:07, Gleb Popov wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does LAGG do what you need?
>>
>>
>> Doesn't seem so. I need to balance incoming traffic between several hosts.
>> If I understood it correctly, lagg can be used to load-balance outgoing
>> traffic only.
>>
>>
>> LAGG does incoming and outgoing but only on a single host, so it does
>> sound like it won't help you.
>>
>> That said what your doing does sound quite out of the ordinary,
>>
> 
>  So, that *net.inet.carp.arpbalance *sysctl was out of ordinary feature?
> That probably explains it.
> 
> is there a reason you're trying to copy the traffic to multiple hosts?
>>
> 
> Not copy, but distribute. I just don't want to wait current CARP master die
> to make another computer become active, but to switch between them in some
> fashion (round-robin or whatever).
> 
> 
>>
>> Might be a good idea to explain exactly what your trying to achieve.
>>
>>     Regards
>>     Steve
>>
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I am not sure arpbalancing every worked very well. Without a hashing
algorithm or something, how would you actually make a TCP session work?

-- 
Allan Jude

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