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TrainerBob
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Dec 20, 2023

Packet Based LB vs Connection Based LB

In the 301a exam blueprint it says we should be able to "distinguish between packet based versus connection based load balancing" and to demonstrate when to use each of them. Does anyone know what t...
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PeteWhite
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Dec 20, 2023

There are a few things here - as you say there is the standard VS vs the Performance L4 VS. In the first instance, it is full-proxy depending on which profiles are added ie connection based, in the second this is packet based. There is also datagramLB for UDP where each packet is treated as separate versus being part of a flow.