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>"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.
by 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 agoAh 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.