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There is an article on linux.com about load balancing at: http://www.linux.com/articles/46735 Maybe this will help you.

In my experience, the load-balancing tools and techniques used depends a great deal upon the applications you are running. Is this for load-balancing web (html) servers, database application servers, large-scale computational analysis, or what? There is single-host processor load balancing (for multi-processor and/or multi-core systems), multi-host single-CPU load balancing, multi-host multi-CPU/Core, multi-host multi-platform, etc, etc. and each environment type will be utilized differently for different load types. So, no single solution will handle all scenarios. Each targets a specific scenario or set of scenarios. If you would like more useful advice besides pointers to some literature to read, information about your requirements and development/runtime environments is required. FWIW, I have developed n-tier, cross platform, high-availability, load-balancing C++ application development frameworks for large-scale transaction processing systems - some of which run most semiconductor fabs around the world, so I have some modicum of experience in this domain... :-)

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I presume these are running on two separate host computers?

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You might want to check out http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ that provides a FOSS clustering solution for Linux that will provide the load-balancing capabilities you are looking for. Sorry that I don't have any experience with it, but it should provide a place to start. [quote]The Linux Virtual Server as an advanced load balancing solution can be used to build highly scalable and highly available network services, such as scalable web, cache, mail, ftp, media and VoIP services.[/quote]

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