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f5n00bie_77440
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Nov 24, 2010

Link Controller - outbound load balancing

Hi,     I am new to F5s and implementing link controllers and trying to design a solution to meet the customers requirement of outbound link selection based on best performance, for a specific U...
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f5n00bie_77440
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Nov 24, 2010
Thanks and agreed, I find the requirement quite feckless. However, if packetloss could be monitored, that may provide some tangible benefit.

 

 

Another concept I need to understand is how the default-gateway route is chosen by the link controller for outbound traffic by default.

 

 

As far as I can see default-gateway load balancing is performed by round robin by default, even when dynamic ratio is applied (unless you change the ratios from 1:1) is this correct?