Re: New idea in TCP

[Alfonso De Gregorio <agregorio at acm.org>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:43:39PM +0800, R.Z. Pan wrote:

Hi,

maybe you can be interested in 'TCP Connection Migration' 
(draft-snoeren-tcp-migrate-00.txt) by A. C. Snoeren and 
H. Balakrishnan.

alfonso
 
> Hi, all:
>   I'm a newbie from P.R.China and I do some load balance stuffs. I noticed
> that HTTP Protocol has a redirection mechanism to lead user to another web
> site. Why TCP Protocol don't use this redirection mechanism to implement
> load balancing? In my opinion, the process would be like:

[...omissis...]

> The "Best Server" is one of the load server that be choiced by the Load
> Balancer
> 
> To implement this, TCP Protocol should add one "redirect" bits. Data with a
> redirection control bit we called it a redirection data, the redirection IP
> address packed in the "Options" section of the TCP Header. For the TCP data
> bring us the port number, so we can also dispatch the job according to the
> port. I think load balancing can be resolved by the Operation System in this
> way.
> Is this a nonsense or a good idea? Please give me a advice. Thanks for your
> attention!