From e27bd2aaf025508e77797a155c2b9086716f0fb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: psun256 <paulsun700@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:46:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] layer 4 load balancing (round robin, hardcoded backends)

---
 src/main.rs | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 00e7e65..fde3ec7 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,31 +1,83 @@
-use tokio::net::TcpListener;
-use tokio::io::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::fmt;
+use tokio::io;
+use tokio::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
+use tokio::sync::Mutex;
+use anywho::Error;
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+struct Backend {
+    address: String,
+}
+
+impl fmt::Display for Backend {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "{}", self.address)
+    }
+}
+
+impl Backend {
+    fn new(address: String) -> Self {
+        Backend { address }
+    }
+}
+
+async fn proxy_connection(client_stream: TcpStream, backend: &Backend) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
+    let log_error = |e| { eprintln!("error: something went wrong {}", e); e };
+
+    println!("info: connecting to backend {}", backend);
+    let backend_stream = TcpStream::connect(&backend.address).await.map_err(log_error)?;
+    println!("info: the bluetooth device is connected successfully {}", backend);
+
+    let (mut client_read, mut client_write) = client_stream.into_split();
+    let (mut backend_read, mut backend_write) = backend_stream.into_split();
+
+    let client_to_backend = io::copy(&mut client_read, &mut backend_write);
+    let backend_to_client = io::copy(&mut backend_read, &mut client_write);
+
+    let _ = tokio::select! {
+        res_a = client_to_backend => res_a.map_err(log_error)?,
+        res_b = backend_to_client => res_b.map_err(log_error)?,
+    };
+
+    Ok(())
+}
 
 #[tokio::main]
-async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+async fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
+    let backends = Arc::new(vec![
+        Backend::new("127.0.0.1:8081".to_string()),
+        Backend::new("127.0.0.1:8082".to_string()),
+    ]);
+
+    let current_index = Arc::new(Mutex::new(0));
+
+    println!("lb starting on 0.0.0.0:8080");
+    println!("backends: {:?}", backends);
+
     let listener = TcpListener::bind("0.0.0.0:8080").await?;
 
     loop {
-        let (mut socket, _) = listener.accept().await?;
+        let (socket, addr) = listener.accept().await?;
+        println!("info: new connection from {}", addr);
+
+        let backends_clone = backends.clone();
+        let index_clone = current_index.clone();
 
         tokio::spawn(async move {
-            let mut buf = [0; 1024];
+            // Round Robin
+            let backend = {
+                let mut index = index_clone.lock().await;
+                let selected_backend = backends_clone[*index].clone();
+                *index = (*index + 1) % backends_clone.len();
+                selected_backend
+            };
 
-            loop {
-                let n = match socket.read(&mut buf).await {
-                    Ok(0) => return,
-                    Ok(n) => n,
-                    Err(e) => {
-                        eprintln!("failed to read from socket; err = {:?}", e);
-                        return;
-                    }
-                };
+            println!("info: routing client {} to backend {}", addr, backend);
 
-                if let Err(e) = socket.write_all(&buf[0..n]).await {
-                    eprintln!("failed to write to socket; err = {:?}", e);
-                    return;
-                }
+            if let Err(e) = proxy_connection(socket, &backend).await {
+                eprintln!("error: proxy failed for {}: {}", addr, e);
             }
         });
     }
-}
+}
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