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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Load Balancing/Sharing w/ FreeBSD
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> 
> DLS (the distributed login service) is what you want.  Users get the
> DLS login on the modem server, which offers their credentials to the 
> network.  I know it can be used to share modem servers between several
> seperate hosts, I suspect that if it doesn't currently understand 
> load averages, that it could easily be taught.
> 

Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for.

-Jerry.