Billion Electric Company 30 user manual By session mechanism 2. By IP address hash mechanism

Outbound Load Balancing on BiGuard 30 can be based on one of two methods:

1.By session mechanism

2.By IP address hash mechanism

Choose one by clicking the corresponding radio button.

Based on Session Mechanism: The source IP address and destination IP address might go through WAN1 or WAN2 according to policy settings in this mechanism. You can choose this mechanism if the applications the users use will not tell the difference of the WAN IP addresses. (some applications in the Internet need to identify the source IP address, e.g. Back, Forum, …)

Balance by Session (Round Robin): Balances session traffic based on a round robin method.

Balance by Session (weight of length capacity): Balances session traffic based on weight of length capacity.

Balance by Session weight: Balances session traffic based on a weight ratio. Enter the desired ratio in the blanks provided.

Balance by Traffic (weight of length capacity): Balances traffic based on weight of link capacity.

Balance by Traffic weight: Balances traffic based on a traffic weight ratio. Enter the desired ratio into the blanks provided.

Based on IP hash mechanism: The source IP address and destination IP address will go through specific WAN port (WAN1 or WAN2) according to policy settings in this mechanism. This will assure that some applications will work when it would like to

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