Fair Proxy Balancer

[Alexander Staubo]

On Feb 6, 2008 4:41 PM, Grzegorz Nosek <grzegorz.nosek at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, I haven't compared haproxy or lvs (I assume that was what you
> meant). However, haproxy is a TCP forwarder which makes it uncomfortable
> at times. For example, even if your backends are down, connections to
> haproxy will succeed and the only thing haproxy can do is to reset your
> new connection (even though nginx has already happily sent the request).

Could you explain what you mean by "if your backends are down,
connections to haproxy will succeed"? By backend, do you mean Nginx
or, say, a Mongrel server?

Alexander.