Patent ID: 9749404
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for load balancing over a cluster of authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) servers that is performed by a load balancer located between an AAA client and the AAA servers, comprising: receiving an AAA connection establishment request from the AAA client; forwarding the AAA connection establishment request, received from the AAA client, to more than one AAA server in the cluster of AAA servers, wherein the AAA servers are any of LDAP servers and Diameter servers; receiving an AAA connection establishment answer from two or more of the AAA servers, wherein each received AAA connection establishment answer indicates that an active AAA connection has been established with the respective answering AAA server on behalf of the AAA client; responding to the AAA client with a received AAA connection establishment answer; forwarding an AAA request received from the AAA client to one of the AAA servers, having an active AAA connection with the AAA client, over the active AAA connection, wherein forwarding the AAA request further comprises: