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Dynamic load balancer

  • US 7,739,398 B1
  • Filed: 11/21/2000
  • Issued: 06/15/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A load balancing accelerator, comprising:

  • an input interface which received packets directed to a load balancer, the load balancer and the load balancing accelerator being separate from one another;

    a table which lists packet groups and their respective destination servers, the table having physical entries which can accommodate different field sets for storage of data entries;

    a comparator which compares at least one of the packets directed to the load balancer to one or more of the data entries of the table;

    a forwarding unit which forwards at least one of the packets for which a match was found by the comparator, directly to a server, responsive to the contents of the matching data entry; and

    a controller which determines in which field set, from the plurality of different field sets, each of the data entries of the table is stored;

    wherein the controller comprises a user interface through which a user may configure the field sets in which the data entries of the table are stored.

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