I'd just like to say that I've done work for Gagan before and he has always
been very reliable. I suggested that he put up the bounty for the work as
it's outside of my skill set. It doesn't sound like a very big job to me,
for someone who knows the code base. An easy $1000 for the right person.
Mike
* on the Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:16:11PM +0000, Gagan Prakash wrote:
> I run a small company and we are planning on setting up Exim servers on
> Amazon EC2. We would like to take advantage of their Elastic Load Balancer
> technology. Unfortunately this would mean that we would miss out of the true
> client IP and Exim would receive the load balancer IP as the client IP.
>
> One solution that Amazon has adopted is the Proxy Protocol. It appears that
> various server products including other MTA's have also started providing
> support for this protocol.
>
> There is documentation on the Proxy Protocol here:
>
> http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/Termin
> ologyandKeyConcepts.html#proxy-protocol
>
> I also see that there is a current request for support for Proxy Protocol to
> be added to Exim:
> http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394
>
> I was hoping that this project was of interest to the community and that I
> could interest an Exim developer to take on this project. I would be happy
> to offer up a bounty/reward of $1000 for this work if it is done such
> that:
>
> 1. It enables server side proxy-protocol support in Exim
> 2. Is available as a package for Exim 4.82 for CentOS 6.X x64
> 3. And is accepted in the Exim mainline.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks
> Gagan
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