Mark Brookes - Insights from the load balancer experts

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Mark works as the development manager at Loadbalancer.org. Away from work, Mark plays a lot of Frisbee and enjoys mountain biking. Other hobbies include compiling drivers into the Linux Kernel.

Breaking HAProxy with the help of a Spirent Avalanche and lots of very small packets...

Breaking HAProxy with the help of a Spirent Avalanche and lots of very small packets...

HAProxy is awesome. So awesome in fact, that here at Loadbalancer.org HQ - I find it very difficult to generate enough load to break it...so let's try harder!..

systematic SSL testing

SSL offload testing with HAProxy and Stunnel

There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested...

Simple bare metal restore of your load balancer with a USB stick

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Simple bare metal restore of your load balancer with a USB stick

Does it seem like some appliance vendors go out of their way to make hardware recovery and licencing as difficult as possible?..

NTLM authenticating proxy check script

NTLM authenticating proxy check script

This script was designed primarily to be tied into Ldirectord but feel free to adapt it to your needs, and if you do make changes dont be a stranger post your adaptations below!..

G-Zip Compression and Load Balancing

G-Zip Compression and Load Balancing

A couple of customers asked if our appliances would do G-Zip compression. In the past we hadn't given it much thought until someone offered us a card to test it!..

Enabling SNAT in LVS (xt_ipvs) and iptables

Enabling SNAT in LVS (xt_ipvs) and iptables

The vast majority of layer 4 load balancers use LVS in two-arm NAT mode...