Simple TCP proxy

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 04:32, Morten W. Petersen <morphex at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Chris.
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> You're thinking of the backlog argument of listen?

Yes, precisely.

> Well, STP will accept all connections, but can limit how many of the accepted connections that are active at any given time.
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> So when I bombed it with hundreds of almost simultaneous connections, all of them were accepted, but only 25 were actively sending and receiving data at any given time. First come, first served.
>

Hmm. Okay. Not sure what the advantage is, but sure.

If the server's capable of handling the total requests-per-minute,
then a queueing system like this should help with burst load, although
I would have thought that the listen backlog would do the same. What
happens if the server actually gets overloaded though? Do connections
get disconnected after appearing connected? What's the disconnect
mode?

BTW, you probably don't want to be using the _thread module - Python
has a threading module which is better suited to this sort of work.
Although you may want to consider asyncio instead, as that has far
lower overhead when working with large numbers of sockets.

ChrisA