# Tomcat Connector ## LoadBalancer HowTo |
Introduction
Load balancer is a virtual worker that does not really communicate with Tomcat workers. Instead it is responsible for the management of several "real" workers. The worker is supposed to be a load balancer if it's worker type is lb. See worker's type directive. The workers that are member of load balancer must not appear in the worker.list directive.
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