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HAPr0xy
Load Balancer performance: Benchmarking HAPr0xy on EC2 (Quick and Dirty Style)
I get quite frustrated with benchmarks because they are very hard to perform properly, and even when you do them properly its very hard to get any useful data from them...
Open source
Load balancing Windows Terminal Server — HAPr0xy and RDP Cookies or Microsoft Connection Broker
When you have users depending on Windows Terminal Services for their main desktop, it's a good idea to have more than one Terminal Server. RDP, however, is not an easy protocol to load balance...
HAPr0xy
Transparent proxy of SSL traffic using Pound to HAPr0xy backend patch and how-to
I've previously blogged about how to get TPROXY and HAPr0xy working nicely together, but what if you want to terminate SSL traffic on the load balancer to use HAPr0xy to insert cookies in the standard HTTP stream to the backend servers?..
HAPr0xy
Configure HAPr0xy with TPROXY kernel for full transparent proxy
If you use HAPr0xy as the load balancer then all of the backend servers see the traffic coming from the IP address of the load balancer...
How-tos
LVS Local node patch for Linux 2.6.25, Centos 5 kernel build how-to
Standard Kernel builds of LVS (Linux Virtual Server) don't have the ability to load balance traffic that is from the local node...