freebsd stable - Jan 2019 - Any suggestions for a layer 3 load ablancer for 12, as relayd doesnt work anymore

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019, at 17:15, Pete French wrote:
> So, until the middle of this afternoon I was, doing my load
> balancing using> relayd from ports and PF. My own fault for not
checking, but I
> upgraded> one of the firewall pair to 12 and then discovered that the
> relayd port is> no 
> Am now puzzling over solutions to this - I dont really want to stay on>
11 forevere. Moving to OpenBSD to get their PF and relayd is a bit of> an
uncomfortable idea as we gain a lot from having one OS
> everywhere that> people know, so does anyone have any suggestions ?
>
> PF round robin is not good enough for this as I have some dynamic
> problems> which indicate when a node is up or down. Relayd will check
> these, but the> basic PF wil not as far as I know.
>
> What do other people do ?
haproxy does proper failover and allows custom health checks either via
URL or real world traffic of external scripts. Traefik has lots of
container oriented features.
Dave

> On 14 Jan 2019, at 18:44, Dave Cottlehuber <dch at skunkwerks.at>
wrote:
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>> On Mon, 14 Jan 2019, at 17:15, Pete French wrote:
>> So, until the middle of this afternoon I was, doing my load
>> balancing using> relayd from ports and PF. My own fault for not
checking, but I
>> upgraded> one of the firewall pair to 12 and then discovered that
the
>> relayd port is> no 
>> Am now puzzling over solutions to this - I dont really want to stay
on> 11 forevere. Moving to OpenBSD to get their PF and relayd is a bit of>
an uncomfortable idea as we gain a lot from having one OS
>> everywhere that> people know, so does anyone have any suggestions ?
>> 
>> PF round robin is not good enough for this as I have some dynamic
>> problems> which indicate when a node is up or down. Relayd will
check
>> these, but the> basic PF wil not as far as I know.
>> 
>> What do other people do ?
> 
> haproxy does proper failover and allows custom health checks either via
> URL or real world traffic of external scripts. Traefik has lots of
> container oriented features.
> Dave
There?s also the very venerable (hence reliable) HTTP proxy/load balancer,
Apache Traffic Manager, https://trafficserver.apache.org

- Mark