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.github/workflows/rust.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+name: Rust
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "main" ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ "main" ]
+
+env:
+  CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Build
+      run: cargo build --verbose
+    - name: Run tests
+      run: cargo test --verbose

Cargo.toml

@@ -6,3 +6,12 @@ edition = "2024"
 [dependencies]
 anywho = "0.1.2"
 tokio = { version = "1.48.0", features = ["full"] }
+rand = "0.10.0-rc.5"
+serde = { version = "1.0.228", features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json = "1.0.145"
+rperf3-rs = "0.3.9"
+cidr = "0.3.1"
+serde-saphyr = "0.0.10"
+arc-swap = "1.7.1"
+clap = { version = "4.5.53", features = ["derive"] }
+notify = "8.2.0"

Dockerfile

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/usr/local/cargo/registry \
 
 # change to scratch and get comment the apk command for prod, i guess
 FROM alpine:latest AS runtime
-# RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates curl netcat-openbsd bind-tools strace
+RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates curl netcat-openbsd bind-tools strace
 WORKDIR /enginewhy
 COPY --from=builder /enginewhy/target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/l4lb /usr/bin/l4lb
 ENTRYPOINT ["l4lb"]

README.md

@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-# nginy
-Production't graden't load balancer.
-
-## Quick links
-
-## Todo
-- [ ] architecture astronauting
-  - balancer module
-    - just the algorithms i guess
-- 
-  - backend module
-    - manages the backend pool
-    - deals with health / load check
-    - BackendPool for all the backends stored together
-    - Backend for individual backends
-    - has some methods used by balancer module to pick a suitable backend
-  - proxy module 
-    - all the different supported protocols to handle
-    - will create a session / stream context structure (ConnectionContext)
-      - not globally tracked (this might change for UDP!)
-      - mainly some metadata
-  - config module
-    - set up all the stuff or something
-- [ ] stream / session handling (i think wrapper around tokio TcpStream)
-- [ ] basic backend pooling
-- [ ] layer 4 load balancing
-
-## notes
-tcp, for nginx (and haproxy, its similar):
-```c
-// nginx
-struct ngx_connection_s {
-    void               *data;
-    ngx_event_t        *read;
-    ngx_event_t        *write;
-
-    ngx_socket_t        fd;
-
-    ngx_recv_pt         recv; // fn pointer to whatever recv fn used (different for idfferent platforms / protocol
-    ngx_send_pt         send; // ditto
-    ngx_recv_chain_pt   recv_chain;
-    ngx_send_chain_pt   send_chain;
-
-    ngx_listening_t    *listening;
-
-    off_t               sent;
-
-    ngx_log_t          *log;
-
-    ngx_pool_t         *pool;
-
-    int                 type;
-
-    struct sockaddr    *sockaddr;
-    socklen_t           socklen;
-    ngx_str_t           addr_text;
-
-    ngx_proxy_protocol_t  *proxy_protocol;
-
-#if (NGX_QUIC || NGX_COMPAT)
-    ngx_quic_stream_t     *quic;
-#endif
-
-#if (NGX_SSL || NGX_COMPAT)
-    ngx_ssl_connection_t  *ssl;
-#endif
-
-    ngx_udp_connection_t  *udp; // additional stuff for UDP (which is technically connectionless, but they use timeouts and a rbtree to store "sessions")
-
-    struct sockaddr    *local_sockaddr;
-    socklen_t           local_socklen;
-
-    ngx_buf_t          *buffer;
-
-    ngx_queue_t         queue;
-
-    ngx_atomic_uint_t   number;
-
-    ngx_msec_t          start_time;
-    ngx_uint_t          requests;
-
-    unsigned            buffered:8;
-
-    unsigned            log_error:3;     /* ngx_connection_log_error_e */
-
-    unsigned            timedout:1;
-    unsigned            error:1;
-    unsigned            destroyed:1;
-    unsigned            pipeline:1;
-
-    unsigned            idle:1;
-    unsigned            reusable:1;
-    unsigned            close:1;
-    unsigned            shared:1;
-
-    unsigned            sendfile:1;
-    unsigned            sndlowat:1;
-    unsigned            tcp_nodelay:2;   /* ngx_connection_tcp_nodelay_e */
-    unsigned            tcp_nopush:2;    /* ngx_connection_tcp_nopush_e */
-
-    unsigned            need_last_buf:1;
-    unsigned            need_flush_buf:1;
-
-#if (NGX_HAVE_SENDFILE_NODISKIO || NGX_COMPAT)
-    unsigned            busy_count:2;
-#endif
-
-#if (NGX_THREADS || NGX_COMPAT)
-    ngx_thread_task_t  *sendfile_task;
-#endif
-};
-```
-process to load balance:
-- accept incoming connection
-- create some kind of stream / session object
-  - nginx use this to abstract around tcp and udp layers
-  - for us we probably don't need as detailed as them, since we have tokio::net, so itll be a wrapper around TcpStream
-- ask the load balancing algorithm which server in the pool to route to
-- connect to the server
-- proxy the data (copy_bidirectional? maybe we want some metrics or logging, so might do manually)
-- cleanup when smoeone leavesr or something goes wrong (with TCP, OS / tokio will tell us, with UDP probably just timeout based, and a periodic sweep of all sessions)
-
-
-### UDP
-UDP is connectionless, and i don't think UdpSocket or UdpFramed implement the traits required for tokio copy_bidirectional
-but async write and read don't work on just regular datagrams, so probably not possible.
-
-Would require us to implement our own bidirectional copying / proxying, as well as tracking "active" connections.

config.yaml

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+healthcheck_addr: "0.0.0.0:8080"
+
+iperf_addr: "0.0.0.0:5001"
+
+backends:
+  - id: "srv-1"
+    ip: "192.67.67.2:8080"
+  - id: "srv-2"
+    ip: "192.67.67.3:8080"
+
+clusters:
+  main-api:
+    - "srv-1"
+    - "srv-2"
+  priority-api:
+    - "srv-1"
+
+rules:
+  - clients:
+      - "172.67.67.2/24:80"
+    targets:
+      - "main-api"
+      - "priority-api"
+    strategy:
+      type: "Adaptive"
+      coefficients: [ 1.5, 1.0, 0.5, 0.1 ]
+      alpha: 0.75

docker-compose.yml

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+services:
+  load-balancer:
+    image: neoslhp/enginewhy-lb
+    container_name: load-balancer
+    tty: true
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpus: "4.0"
+          memory: 8G 
+    cap_add:
+      - NET_ADMIN
+      - SYS_ADMIN
+    networks:
+      internal:
+        ipv4_address: 172.67.67.67
+      external:
+        ipv4_address: 192.67.67.67
+
+
+  server1-high-cpu:
+    image: neoslhp/enginewhy-server
+    container_name: server1
+    tty: true
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpus: "4.0"
+          memory: 8G
+    depends_on:
+      - load-balancer
+    cap_add:
+    - NET_ADMIN
+    networks: 
+      external:
+        ipv4_address: 192.67.67.2
+
+  server2-low-cpu:
+    image: neoslhp/enginewhy-server
+    container_name: server2
+    tty: true
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpus: "2.0"
+          memory: 4G
+    depends_on:
+      - load-balancer
+    cap_add:
+    - NET_ADMIN
+    networks:
+      external:
+        ipv4_address: 192.67.67.3
+  
+  client:
+    image: neoslhp/enginewhy-ubuntu22.04
+    container_name: client
+    tty: true
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpus: "4.0"
+          memory: 4G
+    depends_on:
+      - load-balancer
+    cap_add:
+    - NET_ADMIN
+    networks:
+      internal:
+        ipv4_address: 172.67.67.2
+  
+networks:
+  internal:
+    driver: bridge
+    ipam:
+      config:
+      - subnet: 172.67.67.0/24
+  external:
+    driver: bridge
+    ipam:
+      config:
+      - subnet: 192.67.67.0/24
+  
+# Resources:
+# https://networkgeekstuff.com/networking/basic-load-balancer-scenarios-explained/
+# https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/wireshark 
+# https://www.wcse.org/WCSE_2018/W110.pdf 
+# Deepseek

examples/loadbalancertest/config.yaml

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+healthcheck_addr: "10.0.1.10:9000"
+
+iperf_addr: "10.0.1.10:5201"
+
+backends:
+  - id: "srv-1"
+    ip: "10.0.1.11:8081"
+  - id: "srv-2"
+    ip: "10.0.1.12:8082"
+  - id: "srv-3"
+    ip: "10.0.1.13:8083"
+  - id: "srv-4"
+    ip: "10.0.1.14:8084"
+
+clusters:
+  main-api:
+    - "srv-1"
+    - "srv-2"
+  priority-api:
+    - "srv-3"
+    - "srv-4"
+
+rules:
+  - clients:
+      - "0.0.0.0/0:8080"
+    targets:
+      - "main-api"
+    strategy:
+      type: "RoundRobin"
+
+  - clients:
+      - "10.0.0.0/24:8080"
+      - "10.0.0.0/24:25565"
+    targets:
+      - "main-api"
+      - "priority-api"
+    strategy:
+      type: "RoundRobin"

examples/loadbalancertest/docker-compose.yml

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+services:
+  load-balancer:
+    image: enginewhy
+    container_name: load-balancer
+    tty: true
+    cap_add:
+      - NET_ADMIN
+      - SYS_ADMIN
+    volumes:
+      - ./config.yaml:/enginewhy/config.yaml
+    networks:
+      net_1:
+        ipv4_address: 10.0.1.10
+      net_2:
+        ipv4_address: 10.0.0.10
+      net_3:
+        ipv4_address: 10.0.2.10
+
+  srv-1:
+    image: nicolaka/netshoot
+    container_name: srv-1
+    tty: true
+    command: ["python3", "-m", "http.server", "8081", "--directory", "/root/www"]
+    networks:
+      net_1:
+        ipv4_address: 10.0.1.11
+    ports:
+      - "8081:8081"
+    volumes:
+      - ./srv1:/root/www
+    cap_add: [ NET_ADMIN ]
+
+  srv-2:
+    image: nicolaka/netshoot
+    container_name: srv-2
+    tty: true
+    command: ["python3", "-m", "http.server", "8082", "--directory", "/root/www"]
+    networks:
+      net_1:
+        ipv4_address: 10.0.1.12
+    ports:
+      - "8082:8082"
+    volumes:
+      - ./srv2:/root/www
+    cap_add: [ NET_ADMIN ]
+
+  srv-3:
+    image: nicolaka/netshoot
+    container_name: srv-3
+    tty: true
+    command: ["python3", "-m", "http.server", "8083", "--directory", "/root/www"]
+    networks:
+      net_1:
+        ipv4_address: 10.0.1.13
+    ports:
+      - "8083:8083"
+    volumes:
+      - ./srv3:/root/www
+    cap_add: [ NET_ADMIN ]
+
+  srv-4:
+    image: nicolaka/netshoot
+    container_name: srv-4
+    tty: true
+    command: ["python3", "-m", "http.server", "8084", "--directory", "/root/www"]
+    networks:
+      net_1:
+        ipv4_address: 10.0.1.14
+    ports:
+      - "8084:8084"
+    volumes:
+      - ./srv4:/root/www
+    cap_add: [ NET_ADMIN ]
+
+  client-net2:
+    image: nicolaka/netshoot
+    container_name: client-net2
+    tty: true
+    networks:
+      net_2:
+        ipv4_address: 10.0.0.11
+    cap_add: [ NET_ADMIN ]
+
+  client-net3:
+    image: nicolaka/netshoot
+    container_name: client-net3
+    tty: true
+    networks:
+      net_3:
+        ipv4_address: 10.0.2.11
+    cap_add: [ NET_ADMIN ]
+
+networks:
+  net_1:
+    driver: bridge
+    ipam:
+      config:
+        - subnet: 10.0.1.0/24
+
+  net_2:
+    driver: bridge
+    ipam:
+      config:
+        - subnet: 10.0.0.0/24
+
+  net_3:
+    driver: bridge
+    ipam:
+      config:
+        - subnet: 10.0.2.0/24

examples/loadbalancertest/srv1/index.html

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+Hello from server 1!

examples/loadbalancertest/srv2/index.html

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+Hello from server 2!

examples/loadbalancertest/srv3/index.html

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+Hello from server 3!

examples/loadbalancertest/srv4/index.html

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+Hello from server 4!

infra/enginewhy-lb.rs

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+use rperf3::{Server, Config};
+use std::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
+use std::thread;
+use std::io::{Read, Write};
+use std::env;
+use tokio::task;
+
+async fn start_iperf_server() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let config = Config::server(5001);
+    let server = Server::new(config);
+    server.run().await?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn handle_connection(mut stream: TcpStream) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    loop {
+        let mut buffer = [0u8; 512];
+        let bytes_read = stream.read(&mut buffer)?; 
+        let received = String::from_utf8_lossy(&buffer[..bytes_read]);
+        println!("Received: {}", received);
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn start_tcp_server(addr: &str) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    let listener = TcpListener::bind(addr)?;
+    println!("TCP server listening on {}", addr);
+    let mut handles = Vec::new();
+    for stream in listener.incoming() {
+        match stream {
+            Ok(stream) => {
+                let handle = thread::spawn(move || {
+                    if let Err(e) = handle_connection(stream) {
+                        eprintln!("connection handler error: {}", e);
+                    }
+                });
+                handles.push(handle);
+            }
+            Err(e) => eprintln!("incoming connection failed: {}", e),
+        }
+    }
+
+    // When the incoming stream iterator ends (listener closed), join all handlers.
+    for h in handles {
+        let _ = h.join();
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() {
+    // Choose IP based on `--localhost` flag for debugging
+    let use_localhost = env::args().any(|a| a == "--localhost");
+    let ip = if use_localhost { "127.0.0.1" } else { "192.67.67.67" };
+    let tcp_addr = format!("{}:8080", ip);
+
+    let iperf_server = task::spawn(async {
+        start_iperf_server().await;
+    });
+
+    let tcp_ip = tcp_addr.clone();
+    let tcp_server = thread::spawn(move || {
+        start_tcp_server(&tcp_ip).unwrap();
+    });
+
+    iperf_server.await.unwrap();
+    tcp_server.join().unwrap();
+}

infra/enginewhy-server.rs

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+use sysinfo::{CpuRefreshKind, RefreshKind, System};
+use sysinfo::{Networks};
+use sysinfo::{Disks};
+use std::thread;
+use std::time::Duration;
+use std::net::{TcpStream};
+use std::env;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::io::Write;
+use serde_json::Value;
+use rperf3::{Client, Config, Protocol};
+
+
+// Default server addresses
+const DEFAULT_REMOTE_IP: &str = "192.67.67.67";
+const DEFAULT_LOCAL_IP: &str = "127.0.0.1";
+const PORT: u16 = 8080;
+const IPERF_PORT: u16 = 5001;
+
+fn get_io_usage_percentage() -> Result<f64, String> {
+    let mut sys = Disks::new_with_refreshed_list();
+    
+    // Refresh disk information
+    sys.refresh(true);
+    
+    // Get first disk (usually main disk)
+    if let Some(disk) = sys.list().first() {
+        let initial_read = disk.usage().total_read_bytes;
+        let initial_write = disk.usage().total_written_bytes;
+        
+        thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(1));   // 1s
+        
+        sys.refresh(true);
+        let disk = sys.list().first().ok_or("Disk disappeared")?;
+        
+        let new_read = disk.usage().total_read_bytes;
+        let new_write = disk.usage().total_written_bytes;
+        
+        // Calculate Bps
+        let read_per_sec = (new_read - initial_read) as f64; 
+        let write_per_sec = (new_write - initial_write) as f64;
+        
+        // Get disk type to estimate max speed (these are rough estimates)
+        let max_speed = match disk.kind() {
+            sysinfo::DiskKind::SSD => 500_000_000.0, // 500 MBps
+            sysinfo::DiskKind::HDD => 200_000_000.0, // 200 MBps
+            _ => 300_000_000.0, // Default
+        };
+        
+        let io_percentage = f64::min(100.0, ((read_per_sec + write_per_sec) / max_speed) * 100.0);
+        Ok(io_percentage) 
+    } else {
+        Err("No disks found".to_string())
+    }
+}
+
+async fn measure_iperf_bandwidth(server_ip: &str, port: u16) -> Result<f64, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    // Configure the test (use the provided port)
+    let config = Config::client(server_ip.to_string(), port)
+        .with_duration(Duration::from_secs(10));
+
+    // Run the test
+    let client = Client::new(config)?;
+    client.run().await?;
+
+    // Get results
+    let measurements = client.get_measurements();
+    let bandwidth_bps = measurements.total_bits_per_second();
+    println!("iperf3 reported max bandwidth: {:.2} Mbps", bandwidth_bps / 1_000_000.0);
+    
+    Ok(bandwidth_bps)
+}
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    // Determine server IP from CLI: `--localhost` -> local, otherwise remote
+    let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
+    let server_ip = if args.iter().any(|a| a == "--localhost") {
+        DEFAULT_LOCAL_IP.to_string()
+    } else {
+        DEFAULT_REMOTE_IP.to_string()
+    };
+
+    let mut stream = TcpStream::connect(format!("{}:{}", server_ip, PORT))?;
+    println!("server connected to {}:{}", server_ip, PORT);
+
+    // Initialize the system struct
+    let mut sys = System::new_with_specifics(
+        RefreshKind::nothing().with_cpu(CpuRefreshKind::everything()),
+    );
+    let mut networks = Networks::new();
+    networks.refresh(true);
+
+    // Probe max bandwidth using iperf3
+    let mut max_bps: f64 = 0.0;
+    match measure_iperf_bandwidth(&server_ip, IPERF_PORT).await {
+        Ok(bps) => {
+            max_bps = bps;
+            println!("iperf3 reported max bandwidth: {:.2} bits/sec ({:.2} Mbps)", max_bps, max_bps / 1e6);
+        }   
+        Err(e) => println!("iperf3 failed: {}", e),
+    }
+
+    // Wait a bit because CPU usage is based on diff.
+    std::thread::sleep(sysinfo::MINIMUM_CPU_UPDATE_INTERVAL);
+    loop {
+        sys.refresh_all();
+
+        sys.refresh_cpu_usage(); // Refreshing CPU usage.
+        let mut cpu_usage: f64 = 0.0;
+        for cpu in sys.cpus() {
+            cpu_usage += cpu.cpu_usage() as f64;
+        }
+        cpu_usage /= sys.cpus().len() as f64;
+        println!("CPU usage is {}%", cpu_usage);
+
+        // Memory usage
+        let total_mem = sys.total_memory();
+        let used_mem = sys.used_memory();
+        let mem_usage = total_mem as f64 / used_mem as f64;
+        println!("Memory usage is {}%", mem_usage);
+
+        // Network bandwidth usage
+        let mut bandwidth: f64 = 0.0;  // Bps
+        for (interface_name, network) in &networks {
+            if interface_name == "wlp2s0" {
+                bandwidth = network.transmitted() as f64;
+                println!("[{interface_name}] transferred {:?} %", bandwidth / max_bps * 100.0);
+            }
+        }
+        networks.refresh(true);
+
+        // Calculate percent usage of measured max bandwidth (if available)
+        let net_usage_pct: f64 = if max_bps > 0.0 {
+            f64::min(100.0, (bandwidth / max_bps) * 100.0)
+        } else { 0.0 };
+
+        // IO usage
+        let mut io_usage = 0.0;
+        match get_io_usage_percentage() {
+            Ok(percentage) => {
+                io_usage = percentage;
+                println!("I/O usage is {}%", percentage)
+            },
+            Err(e) => println!("Error: {}", e)
+        }
+        println!();
+
+        let mut packet: HashMap<String, Value> = HashMap::new();
+        packet.insert("cpu".to_string(), Value::from(cpu_usage));    // %
+        packet.insert("mem".to_string(), Value::from(mem_usage));    // %
+        packet.insert("net".to_string(), Value::from(net_usage_pct));
+        packet.insert("io".to_string(), Value::from(io_usage));
+
+        let serialized_packet = serde_json::to_string(&packet)?;
+        serialized_packet.push('\n');
+        let _ = stream.write(serialized_packet.as_bytes());
+
+        thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(10));
+    }
+}
+

src/backend/health.rs

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+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::net::{IpAddr, SocketAddr};
+use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
+use serde_json::Value;
+use rperf3::{Config, Server};
+use tokio::net::{TcpListener, TcpSocket, TcpStream};
+use tokio::io::AsyncBufReadExt;
+
+// Physical server health statistics, used for certain load balancing algorithms
+#[derive(Debug, Default)]
+pub struct ServerMetrics {
+    pub cpu: f64,
+    pub mem: f64,
+    pub net: f64,
+    pub io: f64,
+}
+
+impl ServerMetrics {
+    pub fn update(&mut self, cpu: f64, mem: f64, net: f64, io: f64) {
+        self.cpu = cpu;
+        self.mem = mem;
+        self.net = net;
+        self.io = io;
+    }
+}
+
+pub async fn start_healthcheck_listener(
+    addr: &str,
+    healths: HashMap<IpAddr, Arc<RwLock<ServerMetrics>>>,
+) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    let addrs = tokio::net::lookup_host(addr).await?;
+    let mut listener = None;
+
+    for a in addrs {
+        let socket = match a {
+            SocketAddr::V4(_) => TcpSocket::new_v4()?,
+            SocketAddr::V6(_) => TcpSocket::new_v6()?,
+        };
+
+        socket.set_reuseaddr(true)?;
+
+        if socket.bind(a).is_ok() {
+            listener = Some(socket.listen(1024)?);
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    let listener = listener.ok_or_else(|| {
+        eprintln!("health listener could not bind to port");
+        std::io::Error::new(std::io::ErrorKind::Other, "health listener failed")
+    })?;
+
+    println!("healthcheck server listening on {}", addr);
+    loop {
+        let (stream, remote_addr) = match listener.accept().await {
+            Ok(v) => v,
+            Err(e) => {
+                continue;
+            }
+        };
+
+        if let Err(e) = handle_metrics_stream(stream, &healths).await {
+            eprintln!("connection handler error: {}", e);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+pub async fn start_iperf_server(addr: &str) -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let sock = addr.parse::<SocketAddr>()?;
+    let mut config = Config::server(sock.port());
+    config.bind_addr = Some(sock.ip());
+    let server = Server::new(config);
+    println!("iperf server listening on {}", addr);
+    server.run().await?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+async fn handle_metrics_stream(
+    stream: TcpStream,
+    healths: &HashMap<IpAddr, Arc<RwLock<ServerMetrics>>>,
+) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    let server_ip = stream.peer_addr()?.ip();
+    let mut reader = tokio::io::BufReader::new(stream);
+    let mut line = String::new();
+
+    loop {
+        line.clear();
+
+        match reader.read_line(&mut line).await {
+            Ok(0) => break,
+            Ok(_) => {
+                if let Err(e) = process_metrics(server_ip, &line, healths) {
+                    eprintln!("skipping invalid packet: {}", e);
+                }
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                eprintln!("connection error: {}", e);
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn process_metrics(
+    server_ip: IpAddr,
+    json_str: &str,
+    healths: &HashMap<IpAddr, Arc<RwLock<ServerMetrics>>>,
+) -> Result<(), String> {
+    let parsed: Value =
+        serde_json::from_str(json_str).map_err(|e| format!("parse error: {}", e))?;
+
+    let metrics_lock = healths
+        .get(&server_ip)
+        .ok_or_else(|| format!("unknown server: {}", server_ip))?;
+
+    let get_f64 = |key: &str| -> Result<f64, String> {
+        parsed
+            .get(key)
+            .and_then(|v| v.as_f64())
+            .ok_or_else(|| format!("invalid '{}'", key))
+    };
+
+    if let Ok(mut guard) = metrics_lock.write() {
+        guard.update(
+            get_f64("cpu")?,
+            get_f64("mem")?,
+            get_f64("net")?,
+            get_f64("io")?,
+        );
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}

src/backend/mod.rs

@@ -1,22 +1,33 @@
+pub mod health;
+
+use crate::backend::health::ServerMetrics;
 use core::fmt;
 use std::net::SocketAddr;
-use std::sync::RwLock;
 use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::sync::RwLock;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
 
+// A possible endpoint for a proxied connection.
+// Note that multiple may live on the same server, hence the Arc<RwLock<ServerMetric>>
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct Backend {
     pub id: String,
     pub address: SocketAddr,
     pub active_connections: AtomicUsize,
+    pub metrics: Arc<RwLock<ServerMetrics>>,
 }
 
 impl Backend {
-    pub fn new(id: String, address: SocketAddr) -> Self {
+    pub fn new(
+        id: String,
+        address: SocketAddr,
+        server_metrics: Arc<RwLock<ServerMetrics>>,
+    ) -> Self {
         Self {
             id: id.to_string(),
             address,
             active_connections: AtomicUsize::new(0),
+            metrics: server_metrics,
         }
     }
 
@@ -25,12 +36,20 @@ impl Backend {
     // enough not to behave poorly, so SeqCst is probably overkill.
     pub fn inc_connections(&self) {
         self.active_connections.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
-        println!("{} has {} connections open", self.id, self.active_connections.load(Ordering::Relaxed));
+        println!(
+            "{} has {} connections open",
+            self.id,
+            self.active_connections.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
+        );
     }
 
     pub fn dec_connections(&self) {
         self.active_connections.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
-        println!("{} has {} connections open", self.id, self.active_connections.load(Ordering::Relaxed));
+        println!(
+            "{} has {} connections open",
+            self.id,
+            self.active_connections.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
+        );
     }
 }
 
@@ -40,19 +59,18 @@ impl fmt::Display for Backend {
     }
 }
 
+// A set of endpoints that can be load balanced around.
+// Each Balancer owns one of these. Backend instances may be shared
+// with other Balancer instances, hence Arc<Backend>.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
 pub struct BackendPool {
-    pub backends: Arc<RwLock<Vec<Arc<Backend>>>>,
+    pub backends: Arc<Vec<Arc<Backend>>>,
 }
 
 impl BackendPool {
-    pub fn new() -> Self {
+    pub fn new(backends: Vec<Arc<Backend>>) -> Self {
         BackendPool {
-            backends: Arc::new(RwLock::new(Vec::new())),
+            backends: Arc::new(backends),
         }
     }
-
-    pub fn add(&self, backend: Backend) {
-        self.backends.write().unwrap().push(Arc::new(backend));
-    }
 }

src/balancer/adaptive_weight.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,267 @@
+use crate::backend::{Backend, BackendPool};
+use crate::backend::health::ServerMetrics;
+use crate::balancer::{Balancer, ConnectionInfo};
+use rand::prelude::*;
+use rand::rngs::SmallRng;
+use std::fmt::Debug;
+use std::fs::Metadata;
+use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct AdaptiveNode {
+    backend: Arc<Backend>,
+    weight: f64,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct AdaptiveWeightBalancer {
+    pool: Vec<AdaptiveNode>,
+    coefficients: [f64; 4],
+    alpha: f64,
+    rng: SmallRng,
+}
+
+impl AdaptiveWeightBalancer {
+    pub fn new(pool: BackendPool, coefficients: [f64; 4], alpha: f64) -> Self {
+        let nodes = pool
+            .backends
+            .iter()
+            .map(|b| AdaptiveNode {
+                backend: b.clone(),
+                weight: 1f64,
+            })
+            .collect();
+
+        AdaptiveWeightBalancer {
+            pool: nodes,
+            coefficients,
+            alpha,
+            rng: SmallRng::from_rng(&mut rand::rng()),
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn metrics_to_weight(&self, metrics: &ServerMetrics) -> f64 {
+        self.coefficients[0] * metrics.cpu
+            + self.coefficients[1] * metrics.mem
+            + self.coefficients[2] * metrics.net
+            + self.coefficients[3] * metrics.io
+    }
+}
+
+impl Balancer for AdaptiveWeightBalancer {
+    fn choose_backend(&mut self, ctx: ConnectionInfo) -> Option<Arc<Backend>> {
+        if self.pool.is_empty() {
+            return None;
+        }
+
+        // Compute remaining capacity R_i = 100 - composite_load
+        let mut r_sum = 0.0;
+        let mut w_sum = 0.0;
+        let mut l_sum = 0;
+
+        for node in &self.pool {
+            if let Ok(health) = node.backend.metrics.read() {
+                r_sum += self.metrics_to_weight(&health);
+            }
+            w_sum += node.weight;
+            l_sum += node
+                .backend
+                .active_connections
+                .load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
+        }
+
+        let safe_w_sum = w_sum.max(1e-12);
+        let threshold = self.alpha * (r_sum / safe_w_sum);
+        
+        for idx in 0..self.pool.len() {
+            let node = &self.pool[idx];
+
+            if node.weight <= 0.001 {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            let risk = match node.backend.metrics.read() {
+                Ok(h) => self.metrics_to_weight(&h),
+                Err(_) => f64::MAX,
+            };
+
+            let ratio = risk / node.weight;
+            if ratio <= threshold {
+                return Some(node.backend.clone());
+            }
+        }
+
+        // If any server satisfies Ri/Wi <= threshold, it means the server
+        // is relatively overloaded, and we must adjust its weight using
+        // formula (6).
+        let mut total_lwi = 0.0;
+        let l_sum_f64 = l_sum as f64;
+
+        for node in &self.pool {
+            let load = node
+                .backend
+                .active_connections
+                .load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed) as f64;
+            let weight = node.weight.max(1e-12);
+            let lwi = load * (safe_w_sum / weight) * l_sum_f64;
+            total_lwi += lwi;
+        }
+
+        let avg_lwi = (total_lwi / self.pool.len() as f64).max(1e-12);
+
+        // Compute Li = Wi / Ri and choose server minimizing Li.
+        let mut best_backend: Option<Arc<Backend>> = None;
+        let mut min_load = usize::MAX;
+
+        for node in &mut self.pool {
+            let load = node
+                .backend
+                .active_connections
+                .load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
+            let load_f64 = load as f64;
+            let weight = node.weight.max(1e-12);
+
+            let lwi = load_f64 * (safe_w_sum / weight) * l_sum_f64;
+
+            let adj = 1.0 - (lwi / avg_lwi);
+            node.weight += adj;
+
+            node.weight = node.weight.clamp(0.1, 100.0);
+            if load < min_load {
+                min_load = load;
+                best_backend = Some(node.backend.clone());
+            }
+        }
+
+        match best_backend {
+            Some(backend) => Some(backend),
+            None => {
+                let i = (self.rng.next_u32() as usize) % self.pool.len();
+                Some(self.pool[i].backend.clone())
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::backend::Backend;
+    use std::net::SocketAddr;
+
+    fn backend_factory(id: &str, ip: &str, port: u16) -> Arc<Backend> {
+        Arc::new(Backend::new(
+            id.to_string(),
+            SocketAddr::new(ip.parse().unwrap(), port),
+            Arc::new(RwLock::new(ServerMetrics::default())),
+        ))
+    }
+
+    fn unused_ctx() -> ConnectionInfo {
+        ConnectionInfo {
+            client_ip: ("0.0.0.0".parse().unwrap()),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn basic_weight_update_and_choose() {
+        let backends = BackendPool::new(vec![
+            backend_factory("server-0", "127.0.0.1", 3000),
+            backend_factory("server-1", "127.0.0.1", 3001),
+        ]);
+        let mut b = AdaptiveWeightBalancer::new(backends.clone(), [0.5, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1], 0.5);
+        // initially equal weights
+        // update one backend to be heavily loaded
+        {
+            let mut sm0_guard = backends.backends.get(0).unwrap().metrics.write().unwrap();
+            sm0_guard.update(90.0, 80.0, 10.0, 5.0);
+        }
+        {
+            let mut sm1_guard = backends.backends.get(1).unwrap().metrics.write().unwrap();
+            sm1_guard.update(10.0, 5.0, 1.0, 1.0);
+        }
+
+        // Choose backend: should pick the less loaded host server1
+        let chosen = b
+            .choose_backend(unused_ctx())
+            .expect("should choose a backend");
+
+        let sm0: &ServerMetrics = &backends.backends.get(0).unwrap().metrics.read().unwrap();
+        let sm1: &ServerMetrics = &backends.backends.get(1).unwrap().metrics.read().unwrap();
+        println!("{:?}, {:?}", sm0, sm1);
+        assert_eq!(chosen.id, "server-1");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn choose_none_when_empty() {
+        let mut b =
+            AdaptiveWeightBalancer::new(BackendPool::new(vec![]), [0.5, 0.2, 0.2, 0.1], 0.5);
+        assert!(b.choose_backend(unused_ctx()).is_none());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn ratio_triggers_immediate_selection() {
+        // Arrange two servers where server 1 has composite load 0 and server 2 has composite load 100.
+        // With alpha = 1.0 and two servers, threshold = 1.0 * (r_sum / w_sum) = 1.0 * (100 / 2) = 50.
+        // Server 0 ratio = 0 / 1 = 0 <= 50 so it should be chosen immediately.
+        let backends = BackendPool::new(vec![
+            backend_factory("server-0", "127.0.0.1", 3000),
+            backend_factory("server-1", "127.0.0.1", 3001),
+        ]);
+        let mut b = AdaptiveWeightBalancer::new(backends.clone(), [0.25, 0.25, 0.25, 0.25], 1.0);
+
+        {
+            let mut sm0_guard = backends.backends.get(0).unwrap().metrics.write().unwrap();
+            sm0_guard.update(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
+        }
+        {
+            let mut sm1_guard = backends.backends.get(1).unwrap().metrics.write().unwrap();
+            sm1_guard.update(100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0);
+        }
+
+        let chosen = b
+            .choose_backend(unused_ctx())
+            .expect("should choose a backend");
+        assert_eq!(chosen.id, "server-0");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn choose_min_current_load_when_no_ratio() {
+        // Arrange three servers with identical composite loads so no server satisfies Ri/Wi <= threshold
+        // (set alpha < 1 so threshold < ratio). The implementation then falls back to picking the
+        // server with minimum current_load
+        let backends = BackendPool::new(vec![
+            backend_factory("server-0", "127.0.0.1", 3000),
+            backend_factory("server-1", "127.0.0.1", 3001),
+            backend_factory("server-2", "127.0.0.1", 3002),
+        ]);
+
+        // set current_loads (field expected to be public)
+
+        {
+            let mut sm0_guard = backends.backends.get(0).unwrap().metrics.write().unwrap();
+            sm0_guard.update(10.0, 10.0, 10.0, 10.0);
+        }
+        {
+            let mut sm1_guard = backends.backends.get(1).unwrap().metrics.write().unwrap();
+            sm1_guard.update(5.0, 5.0, 5.0, 5.0);
+        }
+        {
+            let mut sm2_guard = backends.backends.get(2).unwrap().metrics.write().unwrap();
+            sm2_guard.update(20.0, 20.0, 20.0, 20.0);
+        }
+
+        // Use coeffs that only consider CPU so composite load is easy to reason about.
+        let mut bal = AdaptiveWeightBalancer::new(backends.clone(), [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0], 0.5);
+
+        // set identical composite loads > 0 for all so ratio = x and threshold = alpha * x < x
+        // you will have threshold = 25 for all 3 backend servers and ratio = 50
+        // so that forces to choose the smallest current load backend
+
+        let chosen = bal
+            .choose_backend(unused_ctx())
+            .expect("should choose a backend");
+        // expect server with smallest current_load server-1
+        assert_eq!(chosen.id, "server-1");
+    }
+}

src/balancer/ip_hashing.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+use crate::backend::{Backend, BackendPool};
+use crate::balancer::{Balancer, ConnectionInfo};
+use std::hash::{DefaultHasher, Hash, Hasher};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct SourceIPHash {
+    pool: BackendPool,
+}
+
+impl SourceIPHash {
+    pub fn new(pool: BackendPool) -> SourceIPHash {
+        Self { pool }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Balancer for SourceIPHash {
+    fn choose_backend(&mut self, ctx: ConnectionInfo) -> Option<Arc<Backend>> {
+        let client_ip = ctx.client_ip;
+
+        let mut hasher = DefaultHasher::new();
+        client_ip.hash(&mut hasher);
+        let hash = hasher.finish();
+        let idx = (hash as usize) % self.pool.backends.len();
+
+        Some(self.pool.backends[idx].clone())
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::backend::health::ServerMetrics;
+    use std::net::IpAddr;
+    use std::sync::RwLock;
+
+    fn create_dummy_backends(count: usize) -> BackendPool {
+        let mut backends = Vec::new();
+        for i in 1..=count {
+            backends.push(Arc::new(Backend::new(
+                format!("backend {}", i),
+                format!("127.0.0.1:808{}", i).parse().unwrap(),
+                Arc::new(RwLock::new(ServerMetrics::default())),
+            )));
+        }
+        BackendPool::new(backends)
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_same_ip_always_selects_same_backend() {
+        let backends = create_dummy_backends(3);
+        let mut balancer = SourceIPHash::new(backends);
+
+        let client_ip: IpAddr = "192.168.1.100".parse().unwrap();
+
+        let first_choice = balancer.choose_backend(ConnectionInfo { client_ip });
+        let second_choice = balancer.choose_backend(ConnectionInfo { client_ip });
+
+        assert!(first_choice.is_some());
+        assert!(second_choice.is_some());
+
+        let first = first_choice.unwrap();
+        let second = second_choice.unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(first.id, second.id);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_different_ips_may_select_different_backends() {
+        let backends = create_dummy_backends(2);
+        let mut balancer = SourceIPHash::new(backends);
+
+        let ip1: IpAddr = "192.168.1.100".parse().unwrap();
+        let choice1 = balancer.choose_backend(ConnectionInfo { client_ip: ip1 });
+
+        let ip2: IpAddr = "192.168.1.101".parse().unwrap();
+        let choice2 = balancer.choose_backend(ConnectionInfo { client_ip: ip2 });
+
+        assert!(choice1.is_some());
+        assert!(choice2.is_some());
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_hash_distribution_across_backends() {
+        let pool = create_dummy_backends(3);
+        let backends_ref = pool.backends.clone();
+
+        let mut balancer = SourceIPHash::new(pool);
+        let mut distribution = [0, 0, 0];
+
+        // Test 30 different IPs
+        for i in 0..30 {
+            let client_ip: IpAddr = format!("192.168.1.{}", 100 + i).parse().unwrap();
+
+            if let Some(backend) = balancer.choose_backend(ConnectionInfo { client_ip }) {
+                for (idx, b) in backends_ref.iter().enumerate() {
+                    if backend.id == b.id && backend.address == b.address {
+                        distribution[idx] += 1;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        assert!(distribution[0] > 0, "Backend 0 received no traffic");
+        assert!(distribution[1] > 0, "Backend 1 received no traffic");
+        assert!(distribution[2] > 0, "Backend 2 received no traffic");
+    }
+}

src/balancer/least_connections.rs

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+// use super::*;

src/balancer/mod.rs

@@ -1,9 +1,18 @@
+pub mod adaptive_weight;
+pub mod ip_hashing;
+pub mod least_connections;
 pub mod round_robin;
 
-use std::fmt::Debug;
-use std::sync::Arc;
 use crate::backend::Backend;
+use std::fmt::Debug;
+use std::net::IpAddr;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct ConnectionInfo {
+    pub client_ip: IpAddr,
+}
 
 pub trait Balancer: Debug + Send + Sync + 'static {
-    fn choose_backend(&mut self) -> Option<Arc<Backend>>;
+    fn choose_backend(&mut self, ctx: ConnectionInfo) -> Option<Arc<Backend>>;
 }

src/balancer/round_robin.rs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
-use std::fmt::Debug;
 use crate::backend::{Backend, BackendPool};
-use crate::balancer::Balancer;
+use crate::balancer::{Balancer, ConnectionInfo};
+use std::fmt::Debug;
+use std::sync::Arc;
 
 // only the main thread for receiving connections should be
 // doing the load balancing. alternatively, each thread
@@ -14,17 +14,16 @@ pub struct RoundRobinBalancer {
 
 impl RoundRobinBalancer {
     pub fn new(pool: BackendPool) -> RoundRobinBalancer {
-        Self {
-            pool,
-            index: 0,
-        }
+        Self { pool, index: 0 }
     }
 }
 
 impl Balancer for RoundRobinBalancer {
-    fn choose_backend(&mut self) -> Option<Arc<Backend>> {
-        let backends = self.pool.backends.read().unwrap();
-        if backends.is_empty() { return None; }
+    fn choose_backend(&mut self, ctx: ConnectionInfo) -> Option<Arc<Backend>> {
+        let backends = self.pool.backends.clone();
+        if backends.is_empty() {
+            return None;
+        }
 
         let backend = backends[self.index % backends.len()].clone();
         self.index = self.index.wrapping_add(1);

src/config.rs

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-// TODO: "routing" rules
-// backends defined as ip + port
-// define sets of backends
-// allowed set operations for now is just union
-// rules are ip + mask and ports, maps to some of the sets
-//  defined earlier, along with a routing strategy

src/config/loader.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+use cidr::IpCidr;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::net::{IpAddr, SocketAddr};
+use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
+
+use crate::backend::health::*;
+use crate::backend::*;
+use crate::balancer::Balancer;
+use crate::balancer::adaptive_weight::AdaptiveWeightBalancer;
+use crate::balancer::round_robin::RoundRobinBalancer;
+use crate::balancer::ip_hashing::SourceIPHash;
+use crate::config::*;
+
+pub struct RoutingTable {
+    pub balancers: Vec<Box<dyn Balancer + Send>>,
+    pub entries: Vec<(IpCidr, usize)>,
+}
+
+pub type PortListeners = HashMap<u16, RoutingTable>;
+
+fn parse_client(s: &str) -> Result<(IpCidr, u16), String> {
+    // just splits "0.0.0.0/0:80" into ("0.0.0.0/0", 80)
+    let (ip_part, port_part) = s
+        .rsplit_once(':')
+        .ok_or_else(|| format!("badly formatted client: {}", s))?;
+
+    let port = port_part.parse().map_err(|_| format!("bad port: {}", s))?;
+    let cidr = ip_part.parse().map_err(|_| format!("bad ip/mask: {}", s))?;
+
+    Ok((cidr, port))
+}
+
+pub fn build_lb(
+    config: &AppConfig,
+) -> Result<(PortListeners, HashMap<IpAddr, Arc<RwLock<ServerMetrics>>>), String> {
+    let mut healths: HashMap<IpAddr, Arc<RwLock<ServerMetrics>>> = HashMap::new();
+    let mut backends: HashMap<String, Arc<Backend>> = HashMap::new();
+
+    for backend_cfg in &config.backends {
+        let addr: SocketAddr = backend_cfg.ip.parse()
+            .map_err(|_| format!("bad ip: {}", backend_cfg.ip))?;
+        let ip = addr.ip();
+
+        let health = healths
+            .entry(ip)
+            .or_insert_with(|| Arc::new(RwLock::new(ServerMetrics::default())))
+            .clone();
+
+        let backend = Arc::new(Backend::new(backend_cfg.id.clone(), addr, health));
+
+        backends.insert(backend_cfg.id.clone(), backend);
+    }
+
+    let mut listeners: PortListeners = HashMap::new();
+
+    for rule in &config.rules {
+        let mut target_backends = Vec::new();
+
+        for target_name in &rule.targets {
+            if let Some(members) = config.clusters.get(target_name) {
+                for member_id in members {
+                    if let Some(backend) = backends.get(member_id) {
+                        target_backends.push(backend.clone());
+                    }
+                }
+            } else if let Some(backend) = backends.get(target_name) {
+                target_backends.push(backend.clone());
+            } else {
+                eprintln!("warning: target {} not found", target_name);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // possible for multiple targets of the same rule to have common backends.
+        target_backends.sort_by(|a, b| a.id.cmp(&b.id));
+        target_backends.dedup_by(|a, b| a.id == b.id);
+
+        if target_backends.is_empty() {
+            eprintln!("warning: rule has no valid targets, skipping.");
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        // for each different client port on this rule, we unfortunately need to make a new
+        // Balancer, since Balancer is not thread safe, requires &mut self for the backend
+        // selection.
+        // a good enough compromise to make a new one for each port, avoids using Mutex, at the
+        // cost of minor penalty to load balancing "quality" when you have several client ports.
+        let mut port_groups: HashMap<u16, Vec<IpCidr>> = HashMap::new();
+
+        for client_def in &rule.clients {
+            let (cidr, port) = parse_client(&client_def)?;
+            port_groups.entry(port).or_default().push(cidr);
+        }
+
+        for (port, cidrs) in port_groups {
+            let table = listeners.entry(port).or_insert_with(|| RoutingTable {
+                balancers: Vec::new(),
+                entries: Vec::new(),
+            });
+
+            let pool = BackendPool::new(target_backends.clone());
+
+            let balancer: Box<dyn Balancer + Send> = match &rule.strategy {
+                LoadBalancerStrategy::RoundRobin => Box::new(RoundRobinBalancer::new(pool)),
+                LoadBalancerStrategy::SourceIPHash => Box::new(SourceIPHash::new(pool)),
+                LoadBalancerStrategy::Adaptive {
+                    coefficients,
+                    alpha,
+                } => Box::new(AdaptiveWeightBalancer::new(pool, *coefficients, *alpha)),
+            };
+
+            let balancer_idx = table.balancers.len();
+            table.balancers.push(balancer);
+
+            for cidr in cidrs {
+                table.entries.push((cidr, balancer_idx));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // sort to make most specific first, so that first match == longest prefix match
+    for table in listeners.values_mut() {
+        table
+            .entries
+            .sort_by(|(a, _), (b, _)| b.network_length().cmp(&a.network_length()));
+    }
+
+    Ok((listeners, healths))
+}

src/config/mod.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+// config is written as a YAML file, the path will be passed to the program.
+//
+// the high level structure of the config is that we
+// first define the individual backends (ip + port) we are going
+// to load balance around.
+//
+// next we define some clusters, which are really more like a short
+// alias for a group of backends.
+//
+// next we define the rules. these are written as a list of
+// "ip/subnet:port" for the clients, and then a list of clusters
+// for which backends these are balanced around. and of course
+// specify which algorithm to use.
+pub mod loader;
+
+use serde::Deserialize;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
+fn default_healthcheck_addr() -> String {
+    "0.0.0.0:8080".to_string()
+}
+
+fn default_iperf_addr() -> String {
+    "0.0.0.0:5201".to_string()
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
+pub struct AppConfig {
+    #[serde(default = "default_healthcheck_addr")]
+    pub healthcheck_addr: String,
+
+    #[serde(default = "default_iperf_addr")]
+    pub iperf_addr: String,
+
+    pub backends: Vec<BackendConfig>,
+
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub clusters: HashMap<String, Vec<String>>,
+
+    pub rules: Vec<RuleConfig>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
+pub struct BackendConfig {
+    pub id: String,
+    pub ip: String,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
+pub struct RuleConfig {
+    pub clients: Vec<String>,
+    pub targets: Vec<String>,
+    pub strategy: LoadBalancerStrategy,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(tag = "type")]
+pub enum LoadBalancerStrategy {
+    RoundRobin,
+    SourceIPHash,
+    Adaptive { coefficients: [f64; 4], alpha: f64 },
+}

src/main.rs

@@ -1,52 +1,252 @@
-extern crate core;
-
+mod backend;
 mod balancer;
 mod config;
-mod backend;
 mod proxy;
 
-use tokio::net::TcpListener;
-use tokio::io::{AsyncReadExt, AsyncWriteExt};
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64;
-use crate::backend::{Backend, BackendPool};
-use crate::balancer::Balancer;
-use crate::balancer::round_robin::RoundRobinBalancer;
+use crate::backend::health::{start_healthcheck_listener, start_iperf_server, ServerMetrics};
+use crate::balancer::ConnectionInfo;
+use crate::config::loader::{build_lb, RoutingTable};
 use crate::proxy::tcp::proxy_tcp_connection;
+use anywho::Error;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::hash::Hash;
+use std::net::{IpAddr, SocketAddr};
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering};
+use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex, RwLock};
+use std::time::Duration;
+use tokio::io::AsyncBufReadExt;
+use tokio::net::TcpListener;
+use tokio::sync::mpsc;
+use clap::Parser;
+use notify::{Event, RecursiveMode, Watcher};
+use std::cmp;
 
 static NEXT_CONN_ID: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(1);
 
+struct ProgramState {
+    tx_rt_map: HashMap<u16, mpsc::UnboundedSender<RoutingTable>>,
+    healths: HashMap<IpAddr, Arc<RwLock<ServerMetrics>>>,
+    health_listener: Option<tokio::task::JoinHandle<()>>,
+    iperf_server: Option<tokio::task::JoinHandle<()>>,
+    health_listener_addr: Option<String>,
+    iperf_server_addr: Option<String>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
+#[command(author, version, about, long_about = None)]
+struct Args {
+    #[arg(short, long, default_value = "config.yaml")]
+    config: PathBuf,
+}
+
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    let pool = BackendPool::new();
+    let args = Args::parse();
 
-    pool.add(Backend::new(
-        "backend 1".into(),
-        "127.0.0.1:8081".parse().unwrap(),
-    ));
+    if !args.config.is_file() {
+        eprintln!("config file not found or not accessible");
+        std::process::exit(1);
+    }
 
-    pool.add(Backend::new(
-        "backend 2".into(),
-        "127.0.0.1:8082".parse().unwrap(),
-    ));
+    println!("reading config from {:?}", args.config);
 
-    let mut balancer = RoundRobinBalancer::new(pool.clone());
+    let state = Arc::new(Mutex::new(ProgramState {
+        tx_rt_map: HashMap::new(),
+        healths: HashMap::new(),
+        health_listener: None,
+        iperf_server: None,
+        health_listener_addr: None,
+        iperf_server_addr: None,
+    }));
 
-    let listener = TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:8080").await?;
+    if let Err(e) = load_config(&args.config, state.clone()).await {
+        eprintln!("config file loading failed: {}", e);
+    }
+
+    let config_path = args.config.clone();
+    let state_clone = state.clone();
+
+    tokio::spawn(async move {
+        let (tx, mut rx) = mpsc::channel(1);
+
+        let mut watcher = notify::recommended_watcher(move |res: Result<Event, notify::Error>| {
+            if let Ok(event) = res {
+                if event.kind.is_modify() {
+                    let _ = tx.blocking_send(());
+                }
+            }
+        })
+        .unwrap();
+
+        watcher
+            .watch(&config_path, RecursiveMode::NonRecursive)
+            .unwrap();
+        println!("watching for changes to {:?}", config_path);
+
+        while rx.recv().await.is_some() {
+            // for some reason, saving on certain text editors fires several events,
+            // and this causes us to reload a lot. try to flush some events, add a tiny delay
+            // to mitigate this
+
+            while rx.try_recv().is_ok() {}
+            tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(50)).await;
+            while rx.try_recv().is_ok() {}
+
+            if let Err(e) = load_config(&config_path, state_clone.clone()).await {
+                eprintln!("loading config failed: {}", e);
+            }
+        }
+    });
 
     loop {
-        let (socket, _) = listener.accept().await?;
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_hours(1)).await;
+    }
+}
 
-        let conn_id = NEXT_CONN_ID.fetch_add(1, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::SeqCst);
+async fn load_config(path: &PathBuf, state: Arc<Mutex<ProgramState>>) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    let f = File::open(path)?;
+    let app_config: config::AppConfig = match serde_saphyr::from_reader(f) {
+        Ok(app_config) => app_config,
+        Err(e) => {
+            eprintln!("error parsing config {}", e);
+            return Ok(());
+        }
+    };
 
-        if let Some(backend) = balancer.choose_backend() {
-            tokio::spawn(async move {
-                if let Err(e) = proxy_tcp_connection(conn_id, socket, backend).await {
-                    eprintln!("error: conn_id={} proxy failed: {}", conn_id, e);
-                }
-            });
+    println!(
+        "Loaded config, with {} backends, {} rules.",
+        app_config.backends.len(),
+        app_config.rules.len()
+    );
+
+    let (mut listeners, health_monitors) = match build_lb(&app_config) {
+        Ok(v) => v,
+        Err(e) => {
+            eprintln!("config has logical errors: {}", e);
+            return Ok(());
+        }
+    };
+    let mut prog_state = state.lock().unwrap();
+
+    let ports_to_remove: Vec<u16> = prog_state
+        .tx_rt_map
+        .keys()
+        .cloned()
+        .filter(|port| !listeners.contains_key(port))
+        .collect();
+
+    for port in ports_to_remove {
+        prog_state.tx_rt_map.remove(&port);
+    }
+
+    if let Some(handle) = prog_state.health_listener.take() {
+        handle.abort();
+    }
+    let health_map: HashMap<IpAddr, Arc<RwLock<ServerMetrics>>> = health_monitors.clone();
+    let health_addr = app_config.healthcheck_addr.clone();
+    let health_addr_c = health_addr.clone();
+    let health_handle = tokio::spawn(async move {
+        if let Err(e) = start_healthcheck_listener(&health_addr, health_map).await {
+            eprintln!("health check listener failed: {}", e);
+        }
+    });
+    prog_state.health_listener = Some(health_handle);
+    prog_state.health_listener_addr = Some(health_addr_c);
+
+    // maybe restart iperf server
+    let iperf_addr = app_config.iperf_addr.clone();
+    if prog_state.iperf_server_addr.as_ref() != Some(&iperf_addr) {
+        if let Some(handle) = prog_state.iperf_server.take() {
+            handle.abort();
+        }
+
+        let iperf_addr_c = iperf_addr.clone();
+        let iperf_handle = tokio::spawn(async move {
+            if let Err(e) = start_iperf_server(iperf_addr.as_str()).await {
+                eprintln!("iperf server failed: {}", e);
+            }
+        });
+
+        prog_state.iperf_server = Some(iperf_handle);
+        prog_state.iperf_server_addr = Some(iperf_addr_c);
+    }
+
+    prog_state.healths = health_monitors;
+    for (port, routing_table) in listeners.drain() {
+        if let Some(x) = prog_state.tx_rt_map.get_mut(&port) {
+            x.send(routing_table)?;
+            println!("updated rules on port {}", port);
         } else {
-            eprintln!("error: no backendsd for conn_id={}", conn_id);
+            let (tx_rt, rx_rt) = mpsc::unbounded_channel();
+            prog_state.tx_rt_map.insert(port, tx_rt);
+
+            tokio::spawn(run_listener(port, rx_rt, routing_table));
+        }
+    }
+
+    println!("reload complete");
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+async fn run_listener(
+    port: u16,
+    mut rx_rt: mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<RoutingTable>,
+    mut current_table: RoutingTable,
+) {
+    let addr = format!("0.0.0.0:{}", port);
+    println!("Starting tcp listener on {}", addr);
+
+    let listener = TcpListener::bind(&addr).await.expect("Failed to bind port");
+
+    loop {
+        tokio::select! {
+            msg = rx_rt.recv() => {
+                match msg {
+                    Some(new_table) => {
+                        current_table = new_table;
+                    }
+                    None => {
+                        println!("Unbinding listener on port {}", port);
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            accept_result = listener.accept() => {
+                match accept_result {
+                    Ok((socket, remote_addr)) => {
+                        let remote_ip = remote_addr.ip();
+                        let conn_id = NEXT_CONN_ID.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed);
+
+                        let mut chosen_backend = None;
+
+                        for (cidr, balancer_idx) in &mut current_table.entries {
+                            if cidr.contains(&remote_ip) {
+                                let balancer = &mut current_table.balancers[*balancer_idx];
+                                chosen_backend = balancer.choose_backend(ConnectionInfo {
+                                    client_ip: remote_ip,
+                                });
+                                break;
+                            }
+                        }
+
+                        if let Some(backend) = chosen_backend {
+                            tokio::spawn(async move {
+                                if let Err(e) = proxy_tcp_connection(conn_id, socket, backend).await {
+                                    eprintln!("error: conn_id={} proxy failed: {}", conn_id, e);
+                                }
+                            });
+                        } else {
+                            println!("error: no matching rule for {} on port {}", remote_ip, port);
+                        }
+                    }
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        eprintln!("error: listener port {}: {}", port, e);
+                    continue;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
         }
     }
 }

src/proxy/mod.rs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+use crate::backend::Backend;
 use std::net::SocketAddr;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Instant;
-use crate::backend::Backend;
 
 pub mod tcp;
 
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ impl Drop for ConnectionContext {
         self.backend.dec_connections();
         let duration = self.start_time.elapsed();
 
-        println!("info: conn_id={} closed. client={} backend={} bytes={} duration={:.2?}",
+        println!(
+            "info: conn_id={} closed. client={} backend={} bytes={} duration={:.2?}",
             self.id,
             self.client_addr,
             self.backend.address,

src/proxy/tcp.rs

@@ -1,24 +1,28 @@
+use crate::backend::Backend;
+use crate::proxy::ConnectionContext;
+use anywho::Error;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use tokio::io;
 use tokio::net::TcpStream;
-use anywho::Error;
-use crate::backend::Backend;
-use crate::proxy::ConnectionContext;
 
-pub async fn proxy_tcp_connection(connection_id: u64, mut client_stream: TcpStream, backend: Arc<Backend>) -> Result<(), Error> {
+pub async fn proxy_tcp_connection(
+    connection_id: u64,
+    mut client_stream: TcpStream,
+    backend: Arc<Backend>,
+) -> Result<(), Error> {
     let client_addr = client_stream.peer_addr()?;
 
     let mut ctx = ConnectionContext::new(connection_id, client_addr, backend.clone());
 
     #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
-    println!("info: conn_id={} connecting to {}", connection_id, ctx.backend.id);
+    println!(
+        "info: conn_id={} connecting to {}",
+        connection_id, ctx.backend.id
+    );
 
     let mut backend_stream = TcpStream::connect(&backend.address).await?;
 
-    let (tx, rx) = io::copy_bidirectional(
-        &mut client_stream,
-        &mut backend_stream,
-    ).await?;
+    let (tx, rx) = io::copy_bidirectional(&mut client_stream, &mut backend_stream).await?;
 
     ctx.bytes_transferred = tx + rx;