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Section: Unix

Added: Sat, Jun 10th 2000 16:03 UTC (8 years, 1 month ago)

Updated: Wed, Apr 9th 2008 07:24 UTC (3 months, 1 day ago)

About:
Balance is a simple but powerful generic TCP proxy with round-robin load balancing and failover mechanisms. Its behavior 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.

Author:
Thomas Obermair [contact developer]

Homepage:
http://www.inlab.de/balance.html
Tar/GZ:
http://www.inlab.de/balance-3.42.tar.gz
OS X package:
http://balance.darwinports.com/

Trove categories: [change]
[Development Status] 5 - Production/Stable
[Environment] Console (Text Based), No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience] Developers, End Users/Desktop, Other Audience, System Administrators
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System] POSIX :: BSD, POSIX :: BSD :: BSD/OS, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: OpenBSD, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris
[Programming Language] C
[Topic] System :: Networking

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

Project admins: [change]
» Thomas Obermair (Owner)

» Rating: 8.58/10.00 (Rank N/A)
» Vitality: 0.19% (Rank 1208)
» Popularity: 3.04% (Rank 1453)

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Branch Version Last release License URLs

Default 3.42 08-Apr-2008 GNU General Public License (GPL)

Comments

[»] Great product; No documentation
by Tim Greaves - Oct 22nd 2002 17:17:54

This is a great product but does anyone know where to get some more documentation on it..

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[»] Re: Great product; No documentation
by John Weeks - Mar 21st 2005 08:49:48

There is a very good man page with examples at: http://www.inlab.de/balance.pdf

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[»] No bindings below port 1024
by Sergio - Aug 29th 2001 14:33:11

I love the simplicity of balance, but it can't bind to "root" ports, which are the really important ports (HTTP/SMTP/POP)

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Sergio Carvalho

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[»] Re: No bindings below port 1024
by Thomas Obermair - Sep 16th 2001 15:08:16

> I love the simplicity of balance, but it
> can't bind to "root" ports,
> which are the really important ports
> (HTTP/SMTP/POP)
Hello, balance can bind to priviledged ports when running as root with no problems... please contact me if you have further
questions here.
Regards,
Thomas

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