Haproxy loadbalancing udp server

Question

Does haproxy supports udp loadbalancing?

We're just using a simple python script on backend server which will be listening on specific port for the udp packects.

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 07 '17 at 09:07

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HAProxy is for TCP/HTTP and UNIX sockets as well: "…

This is alternative to the TCP listening port. Haproxy will then receive UNIX connections on the socket

…" but apparently it has no support of UDP except for logging purposes.

Nginx is an option you can consider though.

edited Feb 07 '17 at 09:07

poige

answered Aug 18 '16 at 10:46

Anand

Nginx is an option if you already have Nginx. If you need to install something that does only UDP load-balancing, I'd suggest something like "pen" which is less convoluted, and it does not come with a lot of features that you might not need. – maxadamo May 05 '18 at 06:31

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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Unfortunately Haproxy doesn't support udp load balancing. See this question for more details: udp traffic with Iperf for haproxy

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

Community

answered Sep 15 '15 at 21:48

rideswitch

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '21 at 12:47

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Haproxy 2.3 allows proxying of syslog UDP. Thus one could bind an UDP socket only to proxy syslog.

answered Mar 22 '21 at 12:47

Jiri B

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