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From: "Ian Douglas" <ian@icreditvision.com>
Subject: RE: using iptables for poor-man's load balancing?
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:47:23 -0800
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To: Andrej Ricnik <lemmetink@hotmail.com>, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org

> >Just curious if the following rules would work to round-robin the
> >connections:
> To my understanding it's not robin-go-round but distributing
> new requests to the currently least used IP (the one with the
> smallest number of active connections), which should pretty
> much do what you want, anyway.

Tink,

That didn't seem to work, all requests kept going to the same machine (first one
listed).

Any other ideas on how I can balance port 80 and port 443 across multiple
machines with iptables?

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