Hi,
I am trying to use stunnel to add ssl support to my app. My app and linux server are tuned to accept 200k+ connections without a problem. When adding stunnel on the same server, the connection stops when it reaches 64k due to stunnel uses ephemeral ports to connect to my app on the localhost.
Any suggestions how to get around this limit?
One thing I am thinking of is to add 10 virtual interfaces on loopback: lo0:2, lo0:3, etc with ip 127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3 etc. Can stunnel be configured to cycle through a pool of ip for outbound connection to my app listening on 127.0.0.1? That would give 10x64k of ephemeral ports. I see stunnel has "local" to specify outgoing ip, but I am not sure if it supports a list of ip or use multiple times. If so, will it round robin the list?
Thanks Frank