Fair

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Fair on Debian 2.1 Fair Server 2.2 Fair Client

Summary

The name "Fair" is too vague for a software package in my humble opinion. However, this package is quite nice. Its a load balancer, and although it seems complicated and the documentation is a little sparse, its easy to get up and running.

Fair on Debian

Fair Server

This is the load balancer. Requests arrive here and then are distributed out to the "clients", which are actually the next step towards the real service. There is a /etc/default/fair file, but I don't know if it does anything. I had to create /etc/fair.conf:

WorkerService = imaps
BalancerService = imaps
AllowUDP = ^192.168.8.[0-9]+$
LocalTCP = no

With that in place, running carrousel will start the load balancer daemon.

Fair Client

The setup is the same, requiring the /etc/fair.conf file, but instead of carrousel, I ran transponder.