Load balancing (was Re: your mail)

[sthomas () EARTHLING NET]

Seems like it's already available: ping.  All that'd be
needed is for the firewalls to respond to ping requests
for the clients they're protecting instead of dropping
the requests on the floor like they do now.  Then the
load balancer would get an RTT to the point where the
traffic entered the client's private network.  Un-firewalled systems would respond directly.

    - st

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:49:28PM +0000, Nick Phillips wrote:
> There seem to be so many of these idiots out there making so many assumptions,
> would it not be a Good Thing to sit down and thrash out a standard which would
> enable all the loadbalancers to get what they need (and no more) from
> clients without triggering alarm bells.
>
> If someone (?) could come up with a protocol which would enable them to send
> a packet to the client which would elicit a useful response from any client
> (compliant or not - I guess your average home user wouldn't need to run the
> service, whereas a firewall/proxy/whatever might get better value if they did)
,
> then maybe we could all stop wasting our time on them, and they'd get more
> useful data back. And everyone would have less rubbish floating around the
> net.


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