Setting up Flash media server 4.0

ok so is where i am now..
i have a orgin server and 2 edge servers and a load balancer
first off im confused in each edge server i set them to be remote, rtmp and changed the routeentry to <RouteEntry>*:*;96.44.***.***:1935</RouteEntry> on both servers
orgin server is just local
what my question is im streaming to orgin and its getting sent to 1 edge and other edge is doing nothing no traffic the stream i set it this way url: 'rtmp://173.254.***.***/live/live_test', which is the 1 edge thats working if i setup another channel pointing to the other edge server ip adresss it doesnt work.. what am i doing wrong isnt all this supposed to be load balanced or am i missing steps...
or did i do it wrong on the flash player config.. Thanks

ok so here is the deal...
url: 'rtmp://173.254.***.***/live/live_test' <-- was wrong i think i pointed it edge server so i changed it to point to load balancer:1935 and it worked... only problem when people connected 80% of the load went to dallas edge server..
Ok so this is my setup
2 dedicated servers 1 in dallas and 1 in LA
Dallas server has 2 1gbit lines so i made 2 vps's inside the server 1 to act as load balancer and 1 to act as origin server...
la server was just plain edge server...
as per this
listen rtmp :1935
    mode tcp
    balance roundrobin
server s1 173.254.***.***:1935 check
    server s2 96.44.***.***:1935 check
should it not have worked ? or did i miss sumthing again
i feel im really close to solving this...

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