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pjcampbell_7243's avatar
pjcampbell_7243
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Mar 04, 2009

BIG IP to load balance mail servers?

This may seem like an obvious question 1 way or the other but will the BIG IP properly load balance outgoing mail servers?
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Deb_Allen_18
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Mar 05, 2009
BIG-IP used to be fairly HTTP-centric, but that has changed. These days we support a broad range of TCP and UDP applications using similar checkbox features as those provided for HTTP.

 

 

If you mean you want to LB your internal clients to a pool of internal mail servers handling outbound messages, then yes, that should be as trivial to implement as simple load balancing for web traffic.

 

 

As jbaird mentions, you'd just configure your pool of mail servers, monitor them with an SMTP monitor, then apply that pool along with a tcp profile to a standard virtual server listening port 25 of the IP associated with the FQDN for outbound mail.

 

 

hth

 

/deb