Coyote Point Systems Equalizer GX Series, Administration Manual

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Load Balancing & Networking
Spoof Load Balancing Toward Server
In the load balancing source-based routing scenario presented below, spoofing is enabled so that
the source is specified by a client IP and the destination is a server IP.
As indicated in the table above, four scenarios are possible:
1. Local Server, Local Client - In this case the server is local and the client is local so no rout-
ing will be required. Since the packet has a source address and destination address has
either an alias on Equalizer or is on the local network, the packets will be sent to the des-
tination without routing.
2. Remote Server, Local Client - In this case the server is outside of the local network with a
client that is local. The packet has a local source IP address. The server is not on the local
network and therefore needs to be evaluated by the routing table to determine if the des-
tination IP address is within the source routing table block. If it does lie within the block it
will have a specific routing gateway associated with that block and will be routed using that
gateway. If the destination does not lie within the source routing table block it will be
dropped.
3. Local Server, Remote Client - In this case a server IP address lies within the local network
while the client IP address is not within the local network.
4. Remote Server, Remote Client - In this case both the server and the client lie outside of the
local VLAN.
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