Description:

Envoy will handle massive connections when used as L4 proxy. Setting the SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF socket options helps to limit the memory usage on each connection. So it would be nice to have these options in the APIs.

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For downstream, Envoy has a socket_options in the listener config, https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.29.0/api-v3/config/listener/v3/listener.proto#config-listener-v3-listener

For upstream, Envoy has a socket_options in the upstream_bind_config field of the cluster config, https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.29.0/api-v3/config/cluster/v3/cluster.proto#config-cluster-v3-cluster