Using LVS to replace Netscaler Load Balancer

[Malcolm]

> I would like to figure out a way to get around the need of having to
> do anything at all on the reals, much like the way Netscallers behave.
>  

I assume Netscaller is a proxy rather than a router? You could use HAProxy:
http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
Looks like he's working on integrating the Linux Layer7 Switching 
project, as well which can only be good news.

Regards,
Malcolm.