The invention discloses a load balancing module in a financial real-time trading
system, which is located between a terminal and a background
server cluster. The load balancing module comprises at least two servers, each load balancing
server is provided with a foreground network card and a background network card and adopts a VRRP (
virtual router redundancy protocol). The foreground network cards are in one set and are externally provided with a unique IP (
internet protocol) address and a unique MAC (
media access control) address and internally divided into a master control foreground network card and the reset of
backup foreground network cards. The background network cards are also in one set and are externally provided with a unique IP (
internet protocol) address and a unique MAC (
media access control) address and internally divided into a master control background network card and the reset of
backup background network cards. Each load balancing
server operates a load balancing program, and the load balancing program comprises a load balancing process, a multi-
machine hot standby process and a monitoring process; and in the multi-
machine hot standby process, the master control foreground network card and the master control background network card determined by the VRRP protocol are monitored, and the master control foreground network card and the master control background network card must be on a same load balancing server.