Question: Can L4 `tcp` proxy have same behaviour as `udp` proxy with `use_per_packet_load_balancing=true`?

[didimelli]

Title: Per-packet tcp proxy

Description: My app must receive a very high amount of data (300MBps) in a single tcp connection.

I would like to be able to split the incoming data into individual "chunks" that my app understands (e.g. my app receives 10KB packets) and proxy the newly created chunks to N upstream servers. Typical tcp load balancer would not help, since they make a 1:1 connection between the client and an upstream server.

My app would only reason by individual packets, so ordering is not an issue. Moreover, my app does not need to reply to the client (apart from the tcp ack). Basically my app is a sink for binary data that is serialized into 10KB packets (with a custom structure, with headers, crcs and payload) and sent over a tcp connection.

Reading the docs, I understood that udp proxy, when configured with use_per_packet_load_balancing=true, does exactly that. I realize tcp (connection-based) is very different from udp (connection-less), but I was wondering if something similar is achievable (maybe with some custom extension)?