R3204P16-HP Load Balancing Module Typical Configuration Examples-6PW101

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Gateway load balancing configuration
example
Network requirements
In the networks where gateways (such as firewalls) processing capabilities have become the bottleneck,
gateway load balancing can be adopted to balance the network traffic among multiple gateway
devices.
Figure 41 Network diagram for gateway load balancing
Configuration considerations
Configure two real services on the level-1 LB module, namely, the LB_1 module of the A7503_1, with the
real service IP addresses as the IP addresses of interfaces Ethernet 0/0 on the two firewalls.
Software version used
This example is configured and verified on R3204P12.