> Do you have an example of what purpose it would serve ? I'm asking > because it's not very easy to implement with table-based algorithms, > since the size of the table is determined by the GCD of all active > servers' weights. Thus adding a new server will change the size of > the table. > > It's also a feature I've never seen on other products either, which > makes be doubt about its usefulness.
Hey Willy, It's really useful in big organizations, when you have to manage tens and tens of LBs and you want to ease the management. An API available remotely allows you to write your own centralized management tools: - configuration backup - configuration edit and push - collection of statistics etc... cheers
