plugdaemon 2.5.3 review

Plugdaemon is a tool that is inspired by, but not based on, the plug-gw from Trusted Information Systems

License: BSD License File size: 14K Developer: Peter da Silva

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Plugdaemon is a tool that is inspired by, but not based on, the plug-gw from Trusted Information Systems. It was originally a simpler wannabe, but the connection balancing code and other features makes it a lot more useful (as of 2.3.1 it's also a feature-complete replacement for plug-gw).

Plugdaemon acts as a "dumb proxy", forwarding a TCP/IP stream from a port on one host to a possibly different port on a separate host. It runs as a daemon to reduce latency in setting up a connection, and optionally logs every connection via syslog. Eventually plugdaemon will be a complete load balancing and monitoring package for servers.

Not all the planned features are implemented in 2.x.

What's New in This Release:
Code cleanup, hash connection structures.
Dietlibc support by Alexander Lazic (see Makefile)
Fix load-balancing (Ben Low).