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Re: Policies based on packet content

Subject: Re: Policies based on packet content
Cc: Shez <shez@xxxxxxx>, lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Ratz <ratz@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:57:32 +0200
Joseph Mack 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.
> 
> Joe

You could get in contact with Kaichuan He (mailto:hek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx). He
implemented a content-based switching loadbalancer (kinda level7:) under 
linux. I'm sure he will gladly answer some of your questions.


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