Re:HAProxy 1.8
by jsmeaton on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @09:54PM
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Are there any plans to add UDP support to HAProxy? I wanted to use HAProxy as a SIP/RTP proxy at my last job, but was unable to do so as we were pushing SIP and RTP as UDP.
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Explain your use case on the mailing list. Absence of UDP support is due to lack of useful scenarios for it.
As someone who puts this as a "want" and certainly not a "need" - the answer is really just management simplicity. That and HAProxy is generally a joy to work with.
I already have a nice anycasted cluster of HAProxy servers that already have the battle tested BGP session teardown logic/etc. integrated - I really don't want to have to use a different load balancing method to HA my UDP services and re-do large portions of that tooling.
It's certainly an annoyance, and being able to define traffic in the same configuration file/syntax/etc. makes it much more maintainable for an ops vs. engineering group.
Fair comment - but I'm not using HAProxy anymore at my current job, so my use case has passed (for now).