On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Tom H <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 01/27/2012 10:22 AM, SCHAER Frederic wrote:
>>>
>>> Looking for simple round robin solutions, I tried several times today to
>>> use
>>> iptables functions without success.
>>>
>>> The cause is that some targets and some matching filters are not available
>>> as
>>> modules and not compiled in the kernel.
>>>
>>> For instance, the BALANCE target isn’t available. Too bad.
>>>
>>> Then, the “-nth” or“-random” parameters aren’t available neither.
>>
>> I think you must be coming from a very old version of iptables.
>
> +1
>
> For “-nth” or“-random”, take a look at "statistic" in "man iptables".

Replied too quickly.

I googled for "balance target" because I've never seen it before.
"clusterip" might be the replacement but since I've never used either,
I'm not sure...