NAME

Net::Proxy::Connector::tcp_balance

VERSION

version 0.001

SYNOPSIS

use Net::Proxy; use Net::Proxy::Connector::tcp_balance; # optional

# proxy connections from localhost:6789 to remotehost:9876 # using standard TCP connections my $proxy = Net::Proxy->new( { in => { type => 'tcp', port => '6789' }, out => { type => 'tcp_balance', hosts => [ 'remotehost1', 'remotehost2' ], port => '9876' }, } );

# register the proxy object $proxy->register();

# and now proxy connections indefinitely Net::Proxy->mainloop();

SYNOPSIS

Net::Proxy::Connector::tcp_balance - connector for outbound tcp balancing and failover

DESCRIPTION

Net::Proxy::Connector::tcp_balance is an outbound tcp connector for Net::Proxy that provides randomized load balancing and also provides failover when outbound tcp hosts are unavailable.

The capabilities of the Net::Proxy::Connector::tcp_balance are otherwise identical to those Net::Proxy::Connector::tcp

CONNECTOR OPTIONS

The connector accept the following options:

in

• host

  The listening address. If not given, the default is localhost.

• port

  The listening port.

out

• hosts

  The remote hosts. An array ref.

• port

  The remote port.

• timeout

  The socket timeout for connection (out only).

AUTHOR

Jesse Thompson <zjt@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Jesse Thompson.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.