What About the Role of IP Sprayers Such as IBM's Network Dispatcher?
Network Dispatcher is a TCP connection router that supports failover and load sharing across several TCP servers. Network Dispatcher was “rebranded” under the WebSphere umbrella and is now part of the WebSphere Edge Server. Load sharing in Network Dispatcher is supported by a user-level manager process that monitors the load on the servers and controls the connection allocation algorithm in the kernel extension. At many Internet sites, the workload required of various services has grown to the point where a single system is often unable to cope. Offering the same service under a number of different node names is a solution that has been used by a number of sites—for example, ...
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