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-.. _load-balancing:
-
-##############
-Load-balancing
-##############
-
-.. toctree::
- :maxdepth: 1
- :includehidden:
-
- wan
- reverse-proxy
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-
-#############
-Reverse-proxy
-#############
-
-.. include:: /_include/need_improvement.txt
-
-VyOS reverse-proxy is balancer and proxy server that provides
-high-availability, load balancing and proxying for TCP (level 4)
-and HTTP-based (level 7) applications.
-
-Configuration
-=============
-
-
-Service configuration is responsible for binding to a specific port,
-while the backend configuration determines the type of load balancing
-to be applied and specifies the real servers to be utilized.
-
-Service
--------
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> listen-address
- <address>
-
- Set service to bind on IP address, by default listen on any IPv4 and IPv6
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> port
- <port>
-
- Create service `<name>` to listen on <port>
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> mode
- <tcp|http>
-
- Configure service `<name>` mode TCP or HTTP
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> backend
- <name>
-
- Configure service `<name>` to use the backend <name>
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> ssl
- certificate <name>
-
- Set SSL certificate <name> for service <name>
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name>
- http-response-headers <header-name> value <header-value>
-
- Set custom HTTP headers to be included in all responses
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> logging facility
- <facility> level <level>
-
- Specify facility and level for logging.
- For an explanation on :ref:`syslog_facilities` and :ref:`syslog_severity_level`
- see tables in syslog configuration section.
-
-
-Rules
-^^^^^
-Rules allow to control and route incoming traffic to specific backend based
-on predefined conditions. Rules allow to define matching criteria and
-perform action accordingly.
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> rule <rule>
- domain-name <name>
-
- Match domain name
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> rule <rule>
- ssl <sni>
-
- SSL match Server Name Indication (SNI) option:
- * ``req-ssl-sni`` SSL Server Name Indication (SNI) request match
- * ``ssl-fc-sni`` SSL frontend connection Server Name Indication match
- * ``ssl-fc-sni-end`` SSL frontend match end of connection Server Name
-
- Indication
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> rule <rule>
- url-path <match> <url>
-
- Allows to define URL path matching rules for a specific service.
-
- With this command, you can specify how the URL path should be matched
- against incoming requests.
-
- The available options for <match> are:
- * ``begin`` Matches the beginning of the URL path
- * ``end`` Matches the end of the URL path.
- * ``exact`` Requires an exactly match of the URL path
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> rule <rule>
- set backend <name>
-
- Assign a specific backend to a rule
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy service <name> rule <rule>
- redirect-location <url>
-
- Redirect URL to a new location
-
-
-Backend
--------
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> balance
- <balance>
-
- Load-balancing algorithms to be used for distributed requests among the
- available servers
-
- Balance algorithms:
- * ``source-address`` Distributes requests based on the source IP address
- of the client
- * ``round-robin`` Distributes requests in a circular manner,
- sequentially sending each request to the next server in line
- * ``least-connection`` Distributes requests to the server with the fewest
- active connections
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> mode
- <mode>
-
- Configure backend `<name>` mode TCP or HTTP
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> server
- <name> address <x.x.x.x>
-
- Set the address of the backend server to which the incoming traffic will
- be forwarded
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> server
- <name> port <port>
-
- Set the address of the backend port
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> server
- <name> check
-
- Active health check backend server
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> server
- <name> send-proxy
-
- Send a Proxy Protocol version 1 header (text format)
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> server
- <name> send-proxy-v2
-
- Send a Proxy Protocol version 2 header (binary format)
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> ssl
- ca-certificate <ca-certificate>
-
- Configure requests to the backend server to use SSL encryption and
- authenticate backend against <ca-certificate>
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> ssl no-verify
-
- Configure requests to the backend server to use SSL encryption without
- validating server certificate
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name>
- http-response-headers <header-name> value <header-value>
-
- Set custom HTTP headers to be included in all responses using the backend
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> logging facility
- <facility> level <level>
-
- Specify facility and level for logging.
- For an explanation on :ref:`syslog_facilities` and :ref:`syslog_severity_level`
- see tables in syslog configuration section.
-
-
-Global
--------
-
-Global parameters
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy global-parameters max-connections
- <num>
-
- Limit maximum number of connections
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy global-parameters ssl-bind-ciphers
- <ciphers>
-
- Limit allowed cipher algorithms used during SSL/TLS handshake
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy global-parameters tls-version-min
- <version>
-
- Specify the minimum required TLS version 1.2 or 1.3
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy global-parameters logging
- facility <facility> level <level>
-
- Specify facility and level for logging.
- For an explanation on :ref:`syslog_facilities` and :ref:`syslog_severity_level`
- see tables in syslog configuration section.
-
-Health checks
-=============
-
-
-HTTP checks
------------
-
-For web application providing information about their state HTTP health
-checks can be used to determine their availability.
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> http-check
-
- Enables HTTP health checks using OPTION HTTP requests against '/' and
- expecting a successful response code in the 200-399 range.
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> http-check
- method <method>
-
- Sets the HTTP method to be used, can be either: option, get, post, put
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> http-check
- uri <path>
-
- Sets the endpoint to be used for health checks
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> http-check
- expect <condition>
-
- Sets the expected result condition for considering a server healthy.
-
- Some possible examples are:
- * ``status 200`` Expecting a 200 response code
- * ``status 200-399`` Expecting a non-failure response code
- * ``string success`` Expecting the string `success` in the response body
-
-
-TCP checks
-----------
-
-Health checks can also be configured for TCP mode backends. You can configure
-protocol aware checks for a range of Layer 7 protocols:
-
-.. cfgcmd:: set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend <name> health-check <protocol>
-
- Available health check protocols:
- * ``ldap`` LDAP protocol check.
- * ``redis`` Redis protocol check.
- * ``mysql`` MySQL protocol check.
- * ``pgsql`` PostgreSQL protocol check.
- * ``smtp`` SMTP protocol check.
-
-.. note:: If you specify a server to be checked but do not configure a
- protocol, a basic TCP health check will be attempted. A server shall be
- deemed online if it responses to a connection attempt with a valid
- ``SYN/ACK`` packet.
-
-
-Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
-======================
-Configure the load-balancing reverse-proxy service for HTTP.
-
-This configuration listen on port 80 and redirect incoming
-requests to HTTPS:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http port '80'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http redirect-http-to-https
-
-The name of the service can be different, in this example it is only for
-convenience.
-
-
-Examples
-========
-
-Level 4 balancing
------------------
-
-This configuration enables the TCP reverse proxy for the "my-tcp-api" service.
-Incoming TCP connections on port 8888 will be load balanced across the backend
-servers (srv01 and srv02) using the round-robin load-balancing algorithm.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service my-tcp-api backend 'bk-01'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service my-tcp-api mode 'tcp'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service my-tcp-api port '8888'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 balance 'round-robin'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 mode 'tcp'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 server srv01 address '192.0.2.11'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 server srv01 port '8881'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 server srv02 address '192.0.2.12'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 server srv02 port '8882'
-
-
-Balancing based on domain name
-------------------------------
-The following configuration demonstrates how to use VyOS
-to achieve load balancing based on the domain name.
-
-The HTTP service listen on TCP port 80.
-
-Rule 10 matches requests with the domain name ``node1.example.com`` forwards
-to the backend ``bk-api-01``
-
-Rule 20 matches requests with the domain name ``node2.example.com`` forwards
-to the backend ``bk-api-02``
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http description 'bind app listen on 443 port'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http mode 'tcp'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http port '80'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http rule 10 domain-name 'node1.example.com'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http rule 10 set backend 'bk-api-01'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http rule 20 domain-name 'node2.example.com'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http rule 20 set backend 'bk-api-02'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-api-01 description 'My API-1'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-api-01 mode 'tcp'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-api-01 server api01 address '127.0.0.1'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-api-01 server api01 port '4431'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-api-02 description 'My API-2'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-api-02 mode 'tcp'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-api-02 server api01 address '127.0.0.2'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-api-02 server api01 port '4432'
-
-
-Terminate SSL
--------------
-The following configuration terminates SSL on the router.
-
-The ``http`` service is listens on port 80 and force redirects from HTTP to
-HTTPS.
-
-The ``https`` service listens on port 443 with backend ``bk-default`` to
-handle HTTPS traffic. It uses certificate named ``cert`` for SSL termination.
-HSTS header is set with a 1-year expiry, to tell browsers to always use SSL for site.
-
-Rule 10 matches requests with the exact URL path ``/.well-known/xxx``
-and redirects to location ``/certs/``.
-
-Rule 20 matches requests with URL paths ending in ``/mail`` or exact
-path ``/email/bar`` redirect to location ``/postfix/``.
-
-Additional global parameters are set, including the maximum number
-connection limit of 4000 and a minimum TLS version of 1.3.
-
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http description 'Force redirect to HTTPS'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http port '80'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service http redirect-http-to-https
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https backend 'bk-default'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https description 'listen on 443 port'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https mode 'http'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https port '443'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https ssl certificate 'cert'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https http-response-headers Strict-Transport-Security value 'max-age=31536000'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https rule 10 url-path exact '/.well-known/xxx'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https rule 10 set redirect-location '/certs/'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https rule 20 url-path end '/mail'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https rule 20 url-path exact '/email/bar'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https rule 20 set redirect-location '/postfix/'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-default description 'Default backend'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-default mode 'http'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-default server sr01 address '192.0.2.23'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-default server sr01 port '80'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy global-parameters max-connections '4000'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy global-parameters tls-version-min '1.3'
-
-
-SSL Bridging
--------------
-The following configuration terminates incoming HTTPS traffic on the router,
-then re-encrypts the traffic and sends to the backend server via HTTPS.
-This is useful if encryption is required for both legs, but you do not want to
-install publicly trusted certificates on each backend server.
-
-Backend service certificates are checked against the certificate authority
-specified in the configuration, which could be an internal CA.
-
-The ``https`` service listens on port 443 with backend ``bk-bridge-ssl`` to
-handle HTTPS traffic. It uses certificate named ``cert`` for SSL termination.
-
-The ``bk-bridge-ssl`` backend connects to sr01 server on port 443 via HTTPS
-and checks backend server has a valid certificate trusted by CA ``cacert``
-
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https backend 'bk-bridge-ssl'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https description 'listen on 443 port'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https mode 'http'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https port '443'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service https ssl certificate 'cert'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-bridge-ssl description 'SSL backend'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-bridge-ssl mode 'http'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-bridge-ssl ssl ca-certificate 'cacert'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-bridge-ssl server sr01 address '192.0.2.23'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-bridge-ssl server sr01 port '443'
-
-
-Balancing with HTTP health checks
----------------------------------
-
-This configuration enables HTTP health checks on backend servers.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service my-tcp-api backend 'bk-01'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service my-tcp-api mode 'tcp'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy service my-tcp-api port '8888'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 balance 'round-robin'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 mode 'tcp'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 http-check method 'get'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 http-check uri '/health'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 http-check expect 'status 200'
-
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 server srv01 address '192.0.2.11'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 server srv01 port '8881'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 server srv01 check
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 server srv02 address '192.0.2.12'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 server srv02 port '8882'
- set load-balancing reverse-proxy backend bk-01 server srv02 check
-
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-:lastproofread: 2023-01-27
-
-WAN load balancing
-==================
-
-Outbound traffic can be balanced between two or more outbound interfaces.
-If a path fails, traffic is balanced across the remaining healthy paths,
-a recovered path is automatically added back to the routing table and used by
-the load balancer. The load balancer automatically adds routes for each path to
-the routing table and balances traffic across the configured interfaces,
-determined by interface health and weight.
-
-
-In a minimal configuration, the following must be provided:
-
- * an interface with a nexthop
- * one rule with a LAN (inbound-interface) and the WAN (interface).
-
-Let's assume we have two DHCP WAN interfaces and one LAN (eth2):
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan interface-health eth0 nexthop 'dhcp'
- set load-balancing wan interface-health eth1 nexthop 'dhcp'
- set load-balancing wan rule 1 inbound-interface 'eth2'
- set load-balancing wan rule 1 interface eth0
- set load-balancing wan rule 1 interface eth1
-
-.. note::
-
- WAN Load Balacing should not be used when dynamic routing protocol is
- used/needed. This feature creates customized routing tables and firewall
- rules, that makes it incompatible to use with routing protocols.
-
-Balancing Rules
----------------
-
-Interfaces, their weight and the type of traffic to be balanced are defined in
-numbered balancing rule sets. The rule sets are executed in numerical order
-against outgoing packets. In case of a match the packet is sent through an
-interface specified in the matching rule. If a packet doesn't match any rule
-it is sent by using the system routing table. Rule numbers can't be changed.
-
-Create a load balancing rule, it can be a number between 1 and 9999:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- vyos@vyos# set load-balancing wan rule 1
- Possible completions:
- description Description for this rule
- > destination Destination
- exclude Exclude packets matching this rule from wan load balance
- failover Enable failover for packets matching this rule from wan load balance
- inbound-interface Inbound interface name (e.g., "eth0") [REQUIRED]
- +> interface Interface name [REQUIRED]
- > limit Enable packet limit for this rule
- per-packet-balancing Option to match traffic per-packet instead of the default, per-flow
- protocol Protocol to match
- > source Source information
-
-Interface weight
-****************
-
-Let's expand the example from above and add weight to the interfaces.
-The bandwidth from eth0 is larger than eth1. Per default, outbound traffic is
-distributed randomly across available interfaces. Weights can be assigned to
-interfaces to influence the balancing.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan rule 1 interface eth0 weight 2
- set load-balancing wan rule 1 interface eth1 weight 1
-
-66% of traffic is routed to eth0, eth1 gets 33% of traffic.
-
-Rate limit
-**********
-
-A packet rate limit can be set for a rule to apply the rule to traffic above or
-below a specified threshold. To configure the rate limiting use:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan rule <rule> limit <parameter>
-
-* ``burst``: Number of packets allowed to overshoot the limit within ``period``.
- Default 5.
-* ``period``: Time window for rate calculation. Possible values:
- ``second`` (one second), ``minute`` (one minute), ``hour`` (one hour).
- Default is ``second``.
-* ``rate``: Number of packets. Default 5.
-* ``threshold``: ``below`` or ``above`` the specified rate limit.
-
-Flow and packet-based balancing
-*******************************
-
-Outgoing traffic is balanced in a flow-based manner.
-A connection tracking table is used to track flows by their source address,
-destination address and port. Each flow is assigned to an interface according
-to the defined balancing rules and subsequent packets are sent through the
-same interface. This has the advantage that packets always arrive in order if
-links with different speeds are in use.
-
-Packet-based balancing can lead to a better balance across interfaces when out
-of order packets are no issue. Per-packet-based balancing can be set for a
-balancing rule with:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan rule <rule> per-packet-balancing
-
-Exclude traffic
-***************
-
-To exclude traffic from load balancing, traffic matching an exclude rule is not
-balanced but routed through the system routing table instead:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan rule <rule> exclude
-
-
-Health checks
--------------
-
-The health of interfaces and paths assigned to the load balancer is
-periodically checked by sending ICMP packets (ping) to remote destinations,
-a TTL test or the execution of a user defined script. If an interface fails the
-health check it is removed from the load balancer's pool of interfaces.
-To enable health checking for an interface:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- vyos@vyos# set load-balancing wan interface-health <interface>
- Possible completions:
- failure-count Failure count
- nexthop Outbound interface nexthop address. Can be 'dhcp or ip address' [REQUIRED]
- success-count Success count
- +> test Rule number
-
-Specify nexthop on the path to the destination, ``ipv4-address`` can be set to
-``dhcp``
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan interface-health <interface> nexthop <ipv4-address>
-
-Set the number of health check failures before an interface is marked as
-unavailable, range for number is 1 to 10, default 1. Or set the number of
-successful health checks before an interface is added back to the interface
-pool, range for number is 1 to 10, default 1.
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan interface-health <interface> failure-count <number>
- set load-balancing wan interface-health <interface> success-count <number>
-
-Each health check is configured in its own test, tests are numbered and
-processed in numeric order. For multi target health checking multiple tests
-can be defined:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- vyos@vyos# set load-balancing wan interface-health eth1 test 0
- Possible completions:
- resp-time Ping response time (seconds)
- target Health target address
- test-script Path to user defined script
- ttl-limit Ttl limit (hop count)
- type WLB test type
-
-* ``resp-time``: the maximum response time for ping in seconds.
- Range 1...30, default 5
-* ``target``: the target to be sent ICMP packets to, address can be an IPv4
- address or hostname
-* ``test-script``: A user defined script must return 0 to be considered
- successful and non-zero to fail. Scripts are located in /config/scripts,
- for different locations the full path needs to be provided
-* ``ttl-limit``: For the UDP TTL limit test the hop count limit must be
- specified. The limit must be shorter than the path length, an ICMP time
- expired message is needed to be returned for a successful test. default 1
-* ``type``: Specify the type of test. type can be ping, ttl or a user defined
- script
-
-Source NAT rules
-----------------
-
-Per default, interfaces used in a load balancing pool replace the source IP
-of each outgoing packet with its own address to ensure that replies arrive on
-the same interface. This works through automatically generated source NAT (SNAT)
-rules, these rules are only applied to balanced traffic. In cases where this
-behaviour is not desired, the automatic generation of SNAT rules can be
-disabled:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan disable-source-nat
-
-Sticky Connections
-------------------
-Inbound connections to a WAN interface can be improperly handled when the reply
-is sent back to the client.
-
-.. image:: /_static/images/sticky-connections.jpg
- :width: 80%
- :align: center
-
-
-Upon reception of an incoming packet, when a response is sent, it might be
-desired to ensure that it leaves from the same interface as the inbound one.
-This can be achieved by enabling sticky connections in the load balancing:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan sticky-connections inbound
-
-Failover
---------
-
-In failover mode, one interface is set to be the primary interface and other
-interfaces are secondary or spare. Instead of balancing traffic across all
-healthy interfaces, only the primary interface is used and in case of failure,
-a secondary interface selected from the pool of available interfaces takes over.
-The primary interface is selected based on its weight and health, others become
-secondary interfaces. Secondary interfaces to take over a failed primary
-interface are chosen from the load balancer's interface pool, depending
-on their weight and health. Interface roles can also be selected based on rule
-order by including interfaces in balancing rules and ordering those rules
-accordingly. To put the load balancer in failover mode, create a failover rule:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan rule <number> failover
-
-Because existing sessions do not automatically fail over to a new path,
-the session table can be flushed on each connection state change:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan flush-connections
-
-.. warning::
-
- Flushing the session table will cause other connections to fall back from
- flow-based to packet-based balancing until each flow is reestablished.
-
-Script execution
-----------------
-
-A script can be run when an interface state change occurs. Scripts are run
-from /config/scripts, for a different location specify the full path:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- set load-balancing wan hook script-name
-
-Two environment variables are available:
-
-* ``WLB_INTERFACE_NAME=[interfacename]``: Interface to be monitored
-* ``WLB_INTERFACE_STATE=[ACTIVE|FAILED]``: Interface state
-
-.. warning::
-
- Blocking call with no timeout. System will become unresponsive if script
- does not return!
-
-Handling and monitoring
------------------------
-
-
-Show WAN load balancer information including test types and targets.
-A character at the start of each line depicts the state of the test
-
-* ``+`` successful
-* ``-`` failed
-* a blank indicates that no test has been carried out
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- vyos@vyos:~$ show wan-load-balance
- Interface: eth0
- Status: failed
- Last Status Change: Tue Jun 11 20:12:19 2019
- -Test: ping Target:
- Last Interface Success: 55s
- Last Interface Failure: 0s
- # Interface Failure(s): 5
-
- Interface: eth1
- Status: active
- Last Status Change: Tue Jun 11 20:06:42 2019
- +Test: ping Target:
- Last Interface Success: 0s
- Last Interface Failure: 6m26s
- # Interface Failure(s): 0
-
-Show connection data of load balanced traffic:
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- vyos@vyos:~$ show wan-load-balance connection
- conntrack v1.4.2 (conntrack-tools): 3 flow entries have been shown.
- Type State Src Dst Packets Bytes
- tcp TIME_WAIT 10.1.1.13:38040 203.0.113.2:80 203.0.113.2 192.168.188.71
- udp 10.1.1.13:41891 198.51.100.3:53 198.51.100.3 192.168.188.71
- udp 10.1.1.13:55437 198.51.100.3:53 198.51.100.3 192.168.188.71
-
-Restart
-*******
-
-.. code-block:: none
-
- restart wan-load-balance