Using HAPROXY as an SSL gateway

Haproxy is a pretty nifty product. Probably not the least due to the fact that it’s author, Willy Tarreau spends hours of his life helping others in setting it up the way they want, sometimes fixing a bug in the process. The latest release marks the end to a 4-year long bugfix that finally went…

Linode tproxy support missing

In case you are getting this sort of error when setting up your box with iptable rules to support tproxy: root@cartman:~# iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m socket -j DIVERT iptables: No chain/target/match by that name. That error is refering to the ‘-m socket’ match. It seems that on certain kernels (linode kernels…