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tarma_58716
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May 18, 2009

Load balancing gateways

hi guys

 

 

I would like to know, is it possible to load balance gateways.

 

 

i have two gateways and i would like to manage my virtual servers to choice one or the another gateway for traffic.

 

 

thanks you for your response.
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  • The_Bhattman's avatar
    The_Bhattman
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    May 18, 2009
    If you go to ask.f5.com they should have a Configuration and Solutions guide which show you how to balance between 2 gateways - provided that the 2 gateways are for simply outbound connections such as delivering internet traffic.

     

     

    CB

     

  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Dec 21, 2009
    Inbound traffic?

     

     

    What you're looking for is a firewall sandwich. Works fine, but you need an F5 (or HAPair) on EACH side of the firewalls. Works fine, but you need to think carefully about how you configure the monitoring to mark the gateways up/down (And there's a few boundary conditions to do with failures of the gateways, but they're pretty minor and as rare as your gateways actually falling over).
  • The_Bhattman's avatar
    The_Bhattman
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    Dec 21, 2009
    Yes...the configuration guides in ask.f5.com should have a good example to start off with.

     

     

    Bhattman