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Re:AWS Network Load Balancer by bogomipz on Friday September 08, 2017 @03:33AM (#15198492)
>"This appears as Layer 4 load balancing, IPVS is more of Layer 3."

No, IPVS is L4 load balancing. L3 load balancing would be a routing protocol plus ECMP.

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Re:AWS Network Load Balancer by takeda on Sunday September 10, 2017 @04:24AM (#15211327)
Ah my bad, even the wiki link I posted said it is layer 4. I guess both solutions could be utilized then, perhaps it was IPVS then since it would be more performant than HAProxy.
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