CPC H04L 47/125 (2013.01) [H04L 67/568 (2022.05)] | 14 Claims |
1. A load balancing system, comprising:
an application information storage configured to store information obtained by associating application information including flow characteristics of an application of a flow constituted by a packet with a flow identifier for identifying the flow of the packet;
an acquisition unit, implemented using one or more computing devices, configured to acquire, based on an input port receiving a packet, application information of a flow constituted by the packet from the application information storage; and
an output unit, implemented using one or more computing devices, configured to output the packet received by the input port to a packet transfer apparatus in a load state indicating that a load due to the flow of the flow characteristics is determined to be less than a predetermined threshold among a plurality of packet transfer apparatuses according to the flow characteristics included in the application information acquired by the acquisition unit.
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