Can I balance the traffic of my firewall with HAproxy?

Help!
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Hi,

I’m trying to make a firewall cluster with load balance. I read that haproxy can help me with the load balance. But…I don’t know how to configure correctly.

I have 3 nodes, a frontend and two backends. The backends have the same iptables configuration. I just want to balance all the network traffic to this “nodes”.

That’s possible? or haproxy is not the tool that I need?

Thanks!

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Whats the service/application?

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Iptables

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That’s not what I mean. I mean what services are the users accessing?

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Ssh, web and occasionally ftp

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Haproxy is not a forwarding proxy, but a reverse proxy. I assume you are looking for the former.