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Nimbostratus

Jul 06, 2016

GTM - minimizing public IP usage?

I'm working with a customer that is severely constrained with regard to availability of public IP's. They would like to external users to be load balanced to one of two resources, however, they only...

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Hannes_Rapp_162

Nacreous

You must have 2 public IP addresses for DNS/GTM balancing. What you're asking for is not possible by any means.

One option worth a consideration is opting for IPv6 on the external client-side, and continuing with IPv4 on the internal server-side. Most ISPs are freely handing out /64 IPv6 blocks.