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Techgeeeg_28888
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Sep 26, 2012

Load Balancing over two links

Hi guys,   I am sure what i am about to ask has already been discussed here. I have two internet links terminated on GTM and I have a Wild card Virtual Server taking the traffic to internet. I hav...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Sep 28, 2012
Using nexthop would require you to code some sort of check to make sure the next hop is actually available. Using a pool is much better and results in automatic failover to the other link. The pool command does exactly that. I wouldn't call it routing but it'll send the traffic to the pool you specify and I guess the pool configuration determines the routing as it were.

 

 

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