[nsp] load balancing/DFP?

[Jochen Kaiser]

hi,

I am interested in load balancing. I examined certain vendors
and it's hard to find the feature I need to meet my needs: snmp
queries of the balanced system to change weight on the load
balancer.

Cisco has the DFP protocol to support dynamic load balancing via
an agent system. Unfortunately I did not find very much 3rd party
information about this protocol and there are no (at least I did
not find any) generic agents to support this for $operating
system. 

Does anyone have deeper knowledge about this protocol? 
Is it 'current' or is it 'doomed'? 
Which NLB vendors do you know who use a generic snmp daemon
to let you ask a load balanced server. I just know that
Nortel Alteon can accomplish this task.

regards,
Jochen Kaiser
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