Socket redirection

I want to build a load balancer, which does the following:

I have servers (a number of them) runing on different machines...
There is a well defined service to which the clients connect to,
once the request is received, the service (load balancer) chooses to
which servers it needs to forward. This has to be done transparently,
to the client; all the client does is it connects
to this well defined service.

I want to do this by writing the service in c/C++, also, using
TCP/IP sockets..

Can anyone suggest a way of doing this...

Regards,
VJ

Instead of writing one, look at the LVS project.



VJ wrote:
> I want to build a load balancer, which does the following:
>
> I have servers (a number of them) runing on different machines...
> There is a well defined service to which the clients connect to,
> once the request is received, the service (load balancer) chooses to
> which servers it needs to forward. This has to be done transparently,
> to the client; all the client does is it connects
> to this well defined service.
>
> I want to do this by writing the service in c/C++, also, using
> TCP/IP sockets..
>
> Can anyone suggest a way of doing this...
>
> Regards,
> VJ
>