Hewlett-Packard Company Virtual Private Networking Concepts Guide
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Load Balancing and Redundancy
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Load Balancing
Load Balancing
Load Balancing
Load Balancing
Given the presence of more than one VPN device in parallel, it
makes sense that each VPN device handles an equal portion of
the traffic. This equal portioning is called load balancing, which
is accomplished in two ways. Given that a tunnel is established
with the VPN device that answers first and that the VPN device
that answers first does so because it is not busy, the load should
be fairly evenly distributed.
In addition, the number of clients set for Client IP can be used to
divide up the total load among the VPN device devices. As shown
in the following example, if the total number of clients desired is
60 and there are two VPN devices, the number of clients on each
VPN device should be set to 30. In this way a maximum of 30
clients could establish tunnels with each VPN device.
Related
Related
Related
Related
Information
Information
Information
Information
Redundancy (page 6-2)
Tunnel Modes (page 5-20)
Tunnel Types (page 5-8)
Tunnel Definition
Tunnel Definition
Tunnel Definition
Tunnel Definition
Parameters
Parameters
Parameters
Parameters
VPN Device A
VPN Device A
VPN Device A
VPN Device A
VPN Device B
VPN Device B
VPN Device B
VPN Device B
Group name
sales
sales
Client IP
10.1.1.193
10.1.1.225
Number of clients
30
30
Secure profile (must
be previously
defined)
dialup
dialup
Tunnel mode
Red
Red
IP route
Not required
Not required