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F5, Load Balancing 101: Nuts and Bolts: 10 pages. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018. This is a very good, brief overview of load balancing terminology and how load balancing works. Reading it will reinforce the basic concepts discussed in this chapter and provide a good overview of load balancing technology.
Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP): A brief overview of CARP from the FreeBSD handbook.

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