CPC H04L 43/04 (2013.01) [H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/1001 (2022.05); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); H04L 41/5009 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method of performing load balancing on a host computer, the method comprising:
at a load balancer executing on the host computer:
receiving a data message flow associated with a machine executing on the host computer;
directing a deep packet inspector executing on the host computer to examine the data message flow to extract a set of attributes related to the associated machine from which the data message flow originated;
receiving the set of attributes from the deep packet inspector; and
performing a load balancing operation for the data message flow based on the set of attributes.
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