I would like to see something that looks and works exactly like monowall
that does this. Not something that would be functioning as my primary
firewall but as a seperate device. I know what you are saying but then
who would have a captive portal that functions as their primary firewall
either and there is support for it now.

For a load balancing appliance you already need all of the things that
m0n0wall does like traffic shaping, nat, firewalling and in some cases
dhcp so it just makes sense to just add the functionality to something
like this rather than reinventing the wheel.

I'm not even suggesting adding it to the main distribution but perhaps
as a module or a fork. More than anything I was just wondering if there
might be any other interest in this?

David	


On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 14:44, Chet Harvey wrote:
> a load balancer like that should be it's own device....build a bsd box to
> that, should be pretty simple.
> 
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> From: David Rodgers <david dot rodgers at kdsi dot net>
> To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
> Subject: [m0n0wall] Server Load Balancing
> Date: 21/05/04 19:39
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> >
> > I know this is reaching but how tough would it be to add something like
> > this (read like not nec adding this) to m0n0.
> >
> > The purpose would be to be able to stick say 5 machines running http or
> > pop3/smtp on the dmz port of a m0n0 box and have it balance the traffic
> > to them as though they were a single server (think cisco localdirector
> > or lvs only more simple)
> >
> > I could really see something like this coming in handy in a small
> > embedded device that could run from CF... but I may also be the only
> > one.
> >
> > David Rodgers
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