Load balancer and HAproxy
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What is the difference between the load balancer option on pfsense and the package haproxy?
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Load balancer just looks at ports and IPs, not packet content. This makes LoadBalancer more appropriate sometimes, (esp. for non-HTTP traffic) but completely unworkable at other times, e.g. if HTTP headers need to be rewritten on the fly, (which HAproxy does).
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