Re: [Linux-l7sw-devel] New Layer7 switching project

[Alexandre C. <ac...@fr...>]

Hi Jacob :)

> What about the haproxy-project as found on http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
> That's a great level-7 switching project. If you are concerned about
> memory usage or context switching, try it first. It runs in a single
> threads and uses 'select' as its sole dispatcher.

sure I am aware of Willy work ;) and we off-line spoke about this. The
framework I will try to propose with L7SW project is for high perf relay
using kernel machinery and haproxy can be extended to use this
machinery.

> But you might have good reasons not to rely purely on level-7 proxies. 
> However, since existing cookies can be used to remember to which real
> server a request should be forwarded, session-data can be stored
> locally. This is a great advantage over level-4 loadbalancing.

exactly my focus :) during next week-end I will try to find time to work
on loadbalancing support and regexp support (will dig in pcre engine for
highspeed parsing).

cya,
Alexandre