[Openvpn-users] Redirecting connection

[Alex Brett <alex.brett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a method, either with OpenVPN or something within 
TCP (I'm using TCP rather than UDP for several reasons) itself to 
redirect a connection to a different IP address.

Essentially, what I am wanting to do, is have one 'front-end' IP address 
which all the clients connect to, and then have a service which 
redirects the client to one of two OpenVPN servers depending on which 
one has the least clients at the moment (before anyone suggests it, I 
have looked at using the remote-random and multiple remote entries on 
the clients, but this does not provide an ideal solution as it is based 
on randomness).

I would have the front-end set up using HA techniques so that one of the 
two servers runs it, and if that server fails, it falls over to the 
other box which will then pick up the IP and start redirecting 
(obviously only redirecting to itself, although potentially as usage 
increases I may want more servers in which case the same principle applies).

I know it could probably be done with port forwarding in some clever 
way, but what I really want is for the front-end to be out of the loop 
once it has passed the traffic on, rather than just forwarding it to a 
different server...

Thanks in advance,
Alex Brett
alex.brett@xxxxxxxxxx

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