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relayd

OpenBSD load balancer and relay daemon

Reverse Proxy & Gateways ★ 3.9k stars Hard setup ISC

relayd is OpenBSD's daemon for relaying and load-balancing TCP connections, supporting application-layer filtering and SSL/TLS acceleration. It integrates closely with the pf packet filter.

Key features

  • TCP load balancing
  • Application-layer filtering
  • TLS acceleration
  • pf integration

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Tightly integrated with OpenBSD
  • Very lightweight

Trade-offs

  • OpenBSD focused
  • Terse configuration

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