Everyone seems to have overlooked the fact this only works for outgoing traffic, you can't use this strategy on a public facing load-balancer without additional

Everyone seems to have overlooked the fact this only works for outgoing traffic, you can't use this strategy on a public facing load-balancer without additional work. Specifically you will need to accept the traffic on one interface and forward to a new local interface in order to apply the qdisc plug. This is cool, but the above is still a pain in the neck.