On Thu, 11 May 2000, you wrote:
>Shez wrote:
>>
>
>> For a variety of efficiency and
>> performence reasons I want to have a form of persistance based on the
>> ``Host:''
>> header of the incoming packets.
>
>LVS is a layer 4 switch. It operates at the IP level. It does not
>inspect the contents of packets. This ability would be useful to have,
>there is some interest in doing this in the future and it is
>occassionally mentioned here, but it's not the prime focus
>of LVS right now. Other people working in related projects
>are possibly working on it or thinking harder about it than
>we are.
Many thanks for the prompt response. I understand that LVS is layer 4, and I
suspected this would be the response, but I thought I'd try it on anyway ;)
Are you aware of any related projects that would be a good place for me to
investigate?
Thanks
Shez
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