We are moving to run HAPROXY v2.2.18 using opnSense firewall.
We currently run pfSense with HAPROXY 1.8.30 and as I understand there are (were?) issues with threads and especially stick tables.
We are using HAPROXY as load balancer in front of a proxy server and what I think I have been seeing under pfSense HAPROXY 1.8.30 is proxy users bouncing between proxy1 and proxy2 backend proxy servers and this has caused thread exhaustion on the backend proxy servers.
I have disabled multi threading on HAPROXY 1.8.30 and also changed the load balancer algorithm from “Round Robin” to “Source-IP Hash”.
I now see in the proxy server management portal that any given source IP address is only balanced to the same backend proxy1 or proxy2 but never the same source IP address across both backend servers.
Any comments on what I;m doing very welcomed.
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