Re: [asio-users] ASIO based load balancer

[Allen <all...@gm...>]

The device you are looking for would be a router, switch or hub, not a
proxy server. ASIO does not do this.

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Michael IV <exp...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi people!
>
> I have the following question. I need a load balancer for the ASIO server I
> am working on.
> I found this:
>
> http://www.partow.net/programming/tcpproxy/index.html
>
> What I understood was that this is a proxy server which mediates the
> connection between client and server. That's, it maintains a bridge between
> the two in real time. I want to get rid of this part. My server is latency
> critical and I don't want to add overhead by moving socket traffic via
> another process and functions. I would like somehow to pass the connection
> info from that proxy server to my server which would establish direct
> connection with the client. Is it possible with ASIO? If yes - how? If no -
> what are my options?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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