I'm using DD-WRT v24/K2.6 on Netgear WNDR3400. On my home network I have many machines running (I do lots of distributed programming). I want to create a virtual hostname, say publisher, such that any requests on tcp://publisher:5556 are forwarded, round-robin style, to a list of other host names on my home network.
Is this possible? I'm very new to DD-WRT, and with so many options, it's a bit overwhelming. If not possible, I plan to use HAProxy instead, but I'd rather do it in the router.
Answer
dd-wrt is built on Linux so you could possibly compile a build with HAProxy built in. Looks like other have tried this with nginx and Pound but run into issues:
Don't set your expectations too high. Although it is working fine in concept, preliminary testing shows it's a too heavy burden on the MIPS-cpu.
Discrete http-traffic is no problem, but when I was browsing my photo-website whilst looking with top on my router, I saw nginx taking up 98% of CPU and my hi-res photos were crawling.
My recommendation would be to get a mini PC (maybe something like this) and use that to do what you want.
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