Tvheadend

Hello,
I have tested haproxy with 14.04 and 18.04 bionic. Both work nice.
I do not think that there is a major difference when we give it a go on 16.04
Do not know why you need to set iptables, firewall? If you wish to allow users running at certain ip addresses, Tvheadend has its own iptables rules in user field.

Regards
Ermos

Thanks Ermos - how did you configure haproxy to work with tvheadend?

My idea around the iptables was to do something like this --> [[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10727443/how-to-use-iptables-in-linux-to-forward-http-and-https-traffic-to-a-transparent]]

Here you are:

In main server:

apt-get install haproxy -y

in /etc/init.d/haproxy
change
enabled=0
to
enabled=1

If you do not have "enabled=0" line, add "enabled=1"

then, edit your /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg as below:

global
log 127.0.0.1 local0 notice
maxconn 2000
user haproxy
group haproxy

defaults
log global
mode http
option httplog
option dontlognull
retries 3
option redispatch
timeout connect 5000
timeout client 10000
timeout server 10000

listen myapp
bind 0.0.0.0:33333
mode http
stats enable
stats uri /haproxy?stats
stats realm Strictly\ Private
stats auth define_a_username:define_a_password
balance roundrobin
option httpclose
option forwardfor
server server2name server2_ip:9981
server server3name server3_ip:9981

restart your haproxy:
/etc/init.d/haproxy restart

In VLC:
http://main_server_ip:33333/playlist

Kind regards
Ermos

Ermos,

Thanks for your help... however as per our email discussion, your solution using haproxy is solving for a different problem than my one where you are seeking to distribute load from a front-end server to 2 back end tvheadend servers.

Anybody else got any ideas?

Thanks

Having some success with proxychains in case anybody cares... will report back once have it nailed