You can create a UDP listener to a CLB instance to forward UDP requests from the client. UDP is suitable for scenarios that have high requirements for transfer speed but relatively low requirements for accuracy, such as instant messaging and online videos. For UDP listeners, the real server can directly get the real client IP address.
1. Log in to the CLB console and click Instance management in the left sidebar.
2. Select your region in the top-left corner of the CLB instance list and click Configure listener in the Operation column of the target instance.
3. Under TCP/UDP/TCP SSL/QUIC listener, click Create and configure the UDP listener in the pop-up window.
3.1 Configure basic parameters
Parameter
Description
Example
Name
Listener name.
test-udp-8000
Listening protocol and port
Listening protocol: In this case, select UDP.
Listening port: The port used to receive requests and forward them to real servers. The port number ranges from 1 to 65535.
A listening port must be unique in the same CLB instance.
UDP:8000
Balancing method
CLB supports two scheduling algorithms for UDP listeners: weighted round robin (WRR) and weighted least connections (WLC).
WRR: Requests are distributed to real servers in sequence based on their weights. This algorithm performs scheduling based on the number of new connections. Servers with higher weights are more likely to be scheduled and servers with the same weight process the same number of connections.
WLC: Loads of servers are estimated based on the number of active connections to the servers. This algorithm performs scheduling based on server loads and weights. For servers with the same weight, those have less loads are more likely to be scheduled.
Note: If WLC is selected, the listener does not support session persistence.
WRR
Schedule by QUIC ID
Once this feature is enabled, CLB will schedule client requests by QUIC ID, so requests with the same QUIC Connection ID will be scheduled to the same real server. If a request doesn't have a QUIC Connection ID, it will be downgraded to normal WRR scheduling, i.e., scheduling according to the quadruple (source IP address + destination IP address + source port + destination port).
Enabled
Configure ProxyProtocol
After checking, you can enable the ProxyProtocol configuration. It supports carrying the client's source address to the real server through the ProxyProtocol protocol.
Check and use
Connections idle timeout period
The current UDP connection timeout defaults to 300 seconds. If there is no data transmission in the session after the time threshold is exceeded, the connection will be disconnected. If adjustments are needed, submit a ticket application.
Performance and capacity instance value ranges from 10 to 1980, unit: seconds.
Value ranges from 10 to 900 for other types of instances, unit: seconds.
300 seconds
3.2 Configure health check
For more information about health check, see UDP Listener.
3.3 Configure session persistence
Parameter
Description
Example
Session persistence
After session persistence is enabled, a CLB listener will distribute access requests from the same client to the same real server.
UDP session persistence is implemented based on the client IP address. The access requests from the same IP address are forwarded to the same real server.
Session persistence can be enabled for WRR scheduling but not WLC scheduling.
Enabled
Hold Time
Session persistence duration.
Session persistence is terminated if there are no new requests in the connection within the specified duration.
Value range: 30-3600 seconds
30 seconds
Step 2. Bind a real server
1. On the Listener management page, click the created listener UDP:8000 to view the bound real servers on the right of the listener.
2. Click Bind, select the target real server, and configure the server port and weight in the pop-up window.
Note:
If you set Default port first and then select real servers, the port of every real server is the default port.
Step 3. Configure a security group (optional)
You can configure a CLB security group to isolate public network traffic. For more information, see Configuring a CLB Security Group.
Step 4. Modify or delete a listener (optional)
If you need to modify or delete a created listener, click the listener on the Listener management page and click
