Patent attributes
In an example, there is disclosed a load balancing network apparatus, including a first network interface operable to communicatively couple to a first network; a plurality of second network interfaces operable to communicatively couple to a second network; and one or more logic elements providing a load balancing engine operable for: receiving an address mask; receiving an incoming network packet; masking a destination virtual network address with the address mask to match a plurality of virtual ip addresses; and load balancing the incoming network packet to the plurality of service nodes. There is also disclosed one or more computer-readable mediums including instructions for carrying out the operations, and a method of providing load balancing including carrying out the operations.
