From: Markus Fischer <markus@...>
Date: 2010-09-28T07:47:12+09:00
Subject: General purpose TCP proxy?

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out if there's a gem or software available in Ruby
which allows me to act as a general purpose in-between proxy between a
server and multiple clients?

Basically:

<some tcp server> -- <ruby tcp propxy> -- <client1>
                                       \- <client2>
                                       \- <client3>
                                       etc.

It's not an HTTP server, pure TCP with it's own (documented) protocol.
My idea is to be able to act in-between and put certain restrictions on
clients that the server itself is not capable of.

Connections can be long-running, hours or days. I'm not planning on high
traffic (although real traffic requirements are not known to me yet),
but the number of clients will max around 15 or 20, not yet decided.

So, before I start into action on my own I was wandering if there's
something out there?

thanks for pointer,
- Markus