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Why does nobody in this thread seem to realize that HAProxy works just fine over layer 4?
by workinthehead 8y ago
Why does nobody in this thread seem to realize that HAProxy works just fine over layer 4?
- tehnerd 8y agohaproxy terminates tcp session. ipvs/katran does not. the whole purpose of ipvs/katran is to scale out layer of load balancers, which terminates tcp (transport in general) sessions. so tl;dr ipvs/katran solving the problem of scaling out "haproxy/nginx/varnish/w/e else" layer
- justinsaccount 8y ago> The problem this solves is is when you are using haproxy but need redundancy or a single server is no longer capable of handling the load and you need to scale out to 2+ servers. Please describe how HAProxy running in l4 mode is a solution to this problem.
- workinthehead 8y agoHAProxy can scale horizontally. No need to get sniffy just because you forgot HAProxy works on layer 4.