gudenau on Nostr: Can you use iptables as a janky load balancer? I.E. have a protocol that supports ...
Can you use iptables as a janky load balancer? I.E. have a protocol that supports redirects, have a client connect, redirect it to a unique port, step iptables to look for that ip:port pair and forward the connection, remove the rule. I'm not sure what the performance of this would be compared to a more traditional forwarding load balancer with io_uring or whatever.
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