Projects : net/balance

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Balance
Balance Balance is a simple but powerful generic tcp proxy with round robin load balancing and failover mechanisms. It's behaviour can be controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax.

The latest release now supports the definition of channel groups, connection counting, and handling. Boosting the power, and versatility of balance, one big step further.

What is Balance?
Balance is a suprisingly successful load balancing solution being a simple but powerful generic tcp proxy with round robin load balancing and failover mechanisms. Its behaviour can be controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax.
Balance supports IPv6 on the listening side which makes it a very useful tool for IPv6 migration of IPv4 only services and servers.
Balance successfully runs at least on Linux(386), Linux(Itanium), FreeBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, Cygwin, Mac-OS X, HP-UX and many more.
Balance is Open Source Software and released under GPL licensing terms.

Installation

On a FreeBSD system;
Using the ports system:
cd /usr/ports/net/balance make install clean
Using the pkg system:
pkg install net/balance
For more information, please also see: InLab