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In most situations, incoming traffic is in small requests and return traffic from servers back to
clients is large amounts of data (pictures or documents). Using Out-of-Path Mode will allow up
to 100 times more traffic to be handled by the WebMux load balancer. The disadvantage for
OOP/direct response is that the firewall protections built in to the WebMux will no longer
function. Users must provide their own firewall for incoming and outgoing traffic.
Also, when using SSL termination, OOP mode does not gain any advantage due to the
requirement that return traffic from servers must go back to WebMux for examination of the
data headers and/or re-encryption the data packets.
One-Armed Out-of-Path Mode (Installation without IP Address Change)
