Load balancing system
First Claim
1. A load balancing system provided with:
- at least one first load balancing apparatus which analyzes higher layer information included in a received packet received from a client side to generate attribute information of the received packet and transmits the packet with the attribute information attached and a second load balancing apparatus which monitors a state of traffic of packets transmitted to servers connected under it in correspondence with the servers, determines an optimum server for allocation of each packet based on the traffic state information and the attribute information transmitted from the corresponding first load balancing apparatus, and transmits the packet to the determined server.
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Abstract
A load balancing system provided with at least one first load balancing apparatus for analyzing higher layer information included in a received packet to generate attribute information of the received packet and transmitting the packet given that attribute information, a second load balancing apparatus for determining an optimal server for allocation of the packet based on traffic status information of packets and the attribute information sent from the at least one first load balancing apparatus and transmitting the packet to the server, and, optionally, a third load balancing apparatus for allocating the received packet to any of a plurality of first load balancing apparatuses, whereby it becomes possible to reduce as much as possible the intercommunication required for load balancing in the system and to obtain a performance proportional to the number of load balancing apparatuses.
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19 Claims
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1. A load balancing system provided with:
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at least one first load balancing apparatus which analyzes higher layer information included in a received packet received from a client side to generate attribute information of the received packet and transmits the packet with the attribute information attached and a second load balancing apparatus which monitors a state of traffic of packets transmitted to servers connected under it in correspondence with the servers, determines an optimum server for allocation of each packet based on the traffic state information and the attribute information transmitted from the corresponding first load balancing apparatus, and transmits the packet to the determined server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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