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Player should be authenticated first to be able to to talk to the gameserver ( I'm talking about the accept() syscall ).

1h timeout is way too long, you should not have more than a couple of minutes max.

I worked on some popular online games and it was a combination of 1) + some IP tables rules ( to allow the traffic ).

Too many login would block the IP etc ...

With proper auth ( based on TCP ), IPtables, kernel tuning you can get a lot of good results without doing some complicated things like UDP proxy / relay / load balancing.



Have you found any good resources/write-ups on the best practices for this sort of thing?


Unfortunatly like a lot of things in video games it's a lot in-house r&d, public doc for those kind of problems is non existent.

The idea from my original post is that your gameserver should allow traffic only if the player is authenticated.




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