UDP Loadbalancing #62
Description
Output of haproxy -vv and uname -a
HA-Proxy version 1.8.19 2019/02/11
Copyright 2000-2019 Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
Build options :
TARGET = linux2628
CPU = generic
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -O2 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -fwrapv -Wno-unused-label
OPTIONS = USE_ZLIB=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_PCRE=1
Default settings :
maxconn = 2000, bufsize = 16384, maxrewrite = 1024, maxpollevents = 200
Built with OpenSSL version : OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips 26 Jan 2017
Running on OpenSSL version : OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips 26 Jan 2017
OpenSSL library supports TLS extensions : yes
OpenSSL library supports SNI : yes
OpenSSL library supports : SSLv3 TLSv1.0 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2
Built with transparent proxy support using: IP_TRANSPARENT IPV6_TRANSPARENT IP_FREEBIND
Encrypted password support via crypt(3): yes
Built with multi-threading support.
Built with PCRE version : 8.32 2012-11-30
Running on PCRE version : 8.32 2012-11-30
PCRE library supports JIT : no (USE_PCRE_JIT not set)
Built with zlib version : 1.2.7
Running on zlib version : 1.2.7
Compression algorithms supported : identity("identity"), deflate("deflate"), raw-deflate("deflate"), gzip("gzip")
Built with network namespace support.
Available polling systems :
epoll : pref=300, test result OK
poll : pref=200, test result OK
select : pref=150, test result OK
Total: 3 (3 usable), will use epoll.
Available filters :
[SPOE] spoe
[COMP] compression
[TRACE] trace
Linux * 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 10:46:58 EST 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
What should haproxy do differently? Which functionality do you think we should add?
It would be amazing if HAProxy also supported loadbalancing of UDP packets.
A good and free loadbalancer that can do this and also supports Healthchecks does not seem to exist yet.
NGINX can loadbalance UDP, but only supports health checks in the paid version and is kinda expensive if you just need that functionality.
What are you trying to do?
Loadbalancing of traffic to the Graylog cluster. Syslog UDP to be more precise. Many devices don't support sending Syslog TCP packets, which is why UDP is still needed.
And it would be great to have a UDP Loadbalancer that also checks if the device receiving the message is alive.