freebsd-ports/net/loadd/pkg-descr
Norikatsu Shigemura 833c9d2beb Add new ports.
PR:		ports/37661
Submitted by:	Alex Dupre <sysadmin@alexdupre.com>
Approved by:	knu (mentor)
2002-05-16 10:26:39 +00:00

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loadd is a daemon that communicate with ipfw Firewall via the DIVERT
sockets. You can easily configure a divert rule on your firewall and
redirect packets you want into the loadd system. Loadd check the
destination service and do a NAT on packets if the service must be
load balance. For choosing a host, loadd apply an algorithm that you
can configure.
For this first release, two algorithms are available
and you can found this features:
* Round-Robbin Algorithm (Very simple)
* Intelligence Load Sharing (Balancing with realtime load, work with
lmd client on real servers)
* TCP supported (not UDP yet)
* Support multiples IP services (except SSL for the moment)
* Choose of IP aliasing
* Choose of port number to Load Balance
* Multiple daemons support on the same host without conflict
WWW: http://www.bsdshell.net/hut_loadd.html
- Alex Dupre
sysadmin@alexdupre.com