iptables Demystified - Load Balancing without a Load Balancer (no software installation) (part 2)

Guys, you know how much I love proxies and load balancers but this thing blows me away. In this video I'll explain how to perform low-level native kernel load balancing without any additional software. This will be a layer 4 TCP load balancer.


0:00 Intro and Problem Statement
4:50 Round Robin Kernel TCP Load Balancer
17:30 Random Probability-based Kernel TCP Load Balancer
23:00 Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Load Balancer


iptables commands used in this video
https://github.com/hnasr/javascript_playground/tree/master/iptables



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