Adding UDP support

[limanzhang-ess]

Use Case

When I am trying to do loading balancing for graylog, I found that there was no support for UDP in the module.

Describe the Solution You Would Like

For example, receiving UDP traffic on port 5140 and forward it to backend server1:5140 and server2:5140.

listen graylog_udp
 mode udp
 bind :5140
 balance roundrobin
 server server1 ip1:5140 check
 server server2 ip2:5140 check

[limanzhang-ess]

Or function like

log-forward syslog
  # Accepts incoming TCP messages
  bind 0.0.0.0:5140
  # Accepts incoming UDP messages
  dgram-bind 0.0.0.0:5140
  # Sends outgoing messages via UDP
  log logserver:5140 local0

[alexjordan6]

HAProxy does not support UDP in general. You need to use something like ipvs or keepalived to do udp load balancing

[limanzhang-ess]

But Haproxy supports UDP for syslog in log-forward section.

[alexjordan6]

Oh I see, that's a good point. Have you tried using the custom_fragment parameter?

puppetlabs-haproxy/manifests/init.pp

Line 135 in 8d4ce57

Optional[String] $custom_fragment = undef,

[limanzhang-ess]

No, but I will have a look. Thanks for the advice.