MoreBalance 0.4 review

MoreBalance is a modular open source user-space load balancing system

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 38K Developer: Josef Spillner

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MoreBalance is a modular open source user-space load balancing system. MoreBalance also serves as a general fun networking tool.

Here are some key features of "MoreBalance":
(100%): Round-Robin scheduling among several cluster nodes
(70%): Traffic-based scheduling
(80%): service guarantees (using same node for traffic from one IP)
(50%): automatic disabling of dysfunctional services
(100%): two-layer-architecture for automatic respawn in case of crashes
(100%): fetchmail-inspired configuration file, jikes-inspired errors
(20%): statistics
(70%): IP ban lists, including dynamic DOS protection
(50%): Port forwarding
(50%): Support for local sockets
(90%): Connection options like SSL/TLS encryption
(70%): Content scanning
(80%): UDP support
(50%): Prerequisite handling
(50%): Bind options
(30%): Connection throttling
(50%): Internationalization

Installation:

make
make install

What's New in This Release:
Connections can now be compressed, if zlib support has been compiled in.
Logging has been extended to make it more flexible.
Many maintenance fixes and code cleanups were performed.