At 10:38 AM 30/06/2005 +0200, you wrote:
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Sascha, thanks for pointing that out.  Have got it working with a little 
php server program and some pages that check the state of various 
services.  It solves the problem.

More generally - are there any plans to add some logic to this sort of 
check to determine which backend should get the next connection?  In a 
similar system we collaborated on the HA check expected to get a number 
from 1 to 100 (usually the CPU load as a percentage) from each machine and 
the load balancer would select the next machine based on the lowest score.

cheers
JMB

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