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I should have read the blog instead of skimming before responding. This appears as Layer 4 load balancing, IPVS is more of Layer 3. So the person who was vote

by takeda 9y ago

I should have read the blog instead of skimming before responding. This appears as Layer 4 load balancing, IPVS is more of Layer 3. So the person who was voted down by mentioning HAProxy might not be too far off. It could be implemented through HAProxy + TPROXY enabled in the kernel[1]. Then just make sure that default gateway configured on targets routes back to the load balancer or it is the load balancer. [1] https://www.loadbalancer.org/blog/configure-haproxy-with-tproxy-kernel-for-full-transparent-proxy/ https://www.loadbalancer.org/blog/configure-haproxy-with-tpr...

bogomipz 9y ago
>"This appears as Layer 4 load balancing, IPVS is more of Layer 3." No, IPVS is L4 load balancing. L3 load balancing would be a routing protocol plus ECMP.
- takeda 9y ago
  Ah my bad, even the wiki link I posted said it is layer 4. I guess both solutions could be utilized then, perhaps it was IPVS then since it would be more performant than HAProxy.