On Wednesday 06 October 2004 00:17, Rick Cone, Secure Payment Systems wrote:
I use Stunnel as a server that connects locally to a port with an application running (called Mlink). The software on that port will only allow 1 connection on the port at a time, not achieving a (true) socket server environment. Does anyone know of a piece of software (like a load balancer) that would accept connections on a specific port (from Stunnel in this case...), and then round-robin connections (or something thereof) to a set of ports?
(I guess you're using *nix - you didn't say)
I suspect it would be really simple to script this using [x]inetd + netcat. Certainly easier to build a test rig than to work out whether it should work on paper.
There are also several standalone load balancers out there - some may be capable of routing to different ports on the same host. Try some of: http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=load+balance%C2%A7ion=projects&Go.x=0&...
HTH
C.