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by citrin_ru 477 days ago
> This was a trick used by IBM's WebSphere software load balancer back in the 90's-00's

Cicso IOS SLB can work in a similar way - a virtual IP added as an alias to loopback on each server in a farm. An advantage over more widely used L3 balancing that there is need to rewrite headers in IP packets.