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What is Balance ?

Balance is our surprisingly successful load balancing solution being a simple but powerful generic tcp proxy with round robin load balancing and failover mechanisms. Its behaviour can be controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax.

Balance supports IPv6 on the listening side which makes it a very useful tool for IPv6 migration of IPv4 only services and servers.

Balance successfully runs at least on Linux(386), Linux(Itanium), FreeBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, Cygwin, Mac-OS X, HP-UX and many more.

Balance is Open Source Software and released under GPL licensing terms.

BalanceNG® is our commercial Software Load Balancer for Linux and Solaris which is available under a "Free Basic Trial License". Click here for more information.

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Current Release: Balance 3.42, released: Tue Apr 08 2008

Balance 3.42: Source tarball
balance-3.42.tar.gz
MD5: 24bc4063e8af298471d7d0a2ac7462a6
Balance 3.42: Manual Page (PDF)
balance.pdf

Latest Changes:

  • 3.42: Balance now compiles also on systems where IPV6_V6ONLY is undefined (like some Solaris systems).
  • 3.40: IPv6 support on the listening side has been added. MAXCHANNELS in balance.h has been increased to 64.
  • 3.35: A bug in the autodisable functionality has been fixed.
  • 3.34: -a option added (enables "autodisable" option: A channel needs to be manually re-enabled after a failure). Syslog logging added for reporting this event.
  • 3.33: -M option added (use MMAP instead of SHM for IPC)
  • 3.32: Bugfix: /var/run/balance may now already exist.
  • 3.31: Bugfix: TCP_NODELAY properly set.
  • 3.30: Code cleanups and fixes.

Example Command Lines

# balance smtp host1.test.net host2.test.net

Connections to the local SMTP port will be forwarded alterating to the SMTP port on host1 and host2. Balance runs automatically in background.

# balance -b 2001:DB8::1 80 10.1.1.1 10.1.1.2

Balance binds on port 80 of the local IPv6 IP address 2001:DB8::1 and distributes connections to the IPv4 addresses 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.1.2.

# balance -b ::ffff:10.1.1.3 80 10.1.1.1 10.1.1.2

Balance binds on port 80 of the local IPv4 IP address 10.1.1.3 (provided in IPv6 notation) and distributes connections to the IPv4 addresses 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.1.2.

# balance -fp imap mailserver

Connections to the local IMAP port will always be forwarded to the host "mailserver". Balance stays in foreground and all data is printed in readable format on stdout.

$ balance -f 8888 host1 10.1.1.1:8000

Connections to the local port 8888 are forwarded alternating to host1, port 8888 and the host 10.1.1.1, port 8000. Balance stays in foreground connected to the "controlling tty".

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