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Network dispatcher: A connection router for scalable internet services

Hunt et al., 1998

Document ID
15866533870276674381
Author
Hunt G
Goldszmidt G
King R
Mukherjee R
Publication year
Publication venue
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems

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Network Dispatcher (ND) is a TCP connection router that supports load sharing across several TCP servers. Prototypes of Network Dispatcher were used to support several large scale high-load Web sites. Network Dispatcher provides a fast IP packet-forwarding kernel …
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