I should clarify that the tag option is usable as an option to a
redirection, and not a relay if I understand the man page correctly.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Josh Hoppes <[email protected]> wrote:
> You could try using the tag option in the configuration, and then have
> a rule in your
> pf.conf act on that tag to do what ever you need.
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Brian McCann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all.  I've been using relayd for about 6 months or so now on OpenBSD
4.4.
>>  I'm quite happy with it, but there's something I'd really like to do with
>> it that it currently can't do (or perhaps I just missed how to do it, or
>> just couldn't connect the dots).
>> I currently have a pool of mail servers behind relayd, forwarding port 25
to
>> the servers in the pool.  I know this is sort of possible using pf, but
I'd
>> like to do is have relayd be able to limit connections per source address.
>>  My goal is that once the limit has been reached for any address, relayd
>> will then pass that connection off to a different host or table which can
>> handle the overage.  In my case, those "overage" servers would say "421
Too
>> many connections, please try again momentarily", if it were a web server
>> load balancer, those "overage" servers could say something similar.
>>
>> Maybe I missed that this is currently possible...if so, great.  If not, I
>> think this could be very useful.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --Brian
>>
>> --
>> _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_
>> Brian McCann
>>
>> "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of
>> people waiting to abuse me."
>>               -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters"

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