R3721-F3210-F3171-HP High-End Firewalls Network Management Configuration Guide-6PW101

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Configuring load sharing
Feature and hardware compatibility
Feature F1000-A-EI/S-EI
F1000-E
F5000 Firewall module
Load sharing No No Yes No
Configuring the load sharing mode
A routing protocol can be configured with multiple equal-cost routes to the same destination. These routes
have the same preference and will all be used to accomplish load balancing if there is no route with a
higher preference available.
At present, routing protocols supporting load balancing include static routing/IPv6 static routing,
RIP/RIPng, OSPF/OSPFv3, BGP/IPv6 BGP, and IS-IS/IPv6 IS-IS.
If multiple equal-cost routes exist on the device, you can configure load sharing on a per-flow basis or on
a per-packet basis over these routes.
For flow-based load sharing, you can configure the device to identify a flow according to source and
destination IP addresses.
To configure the load sharing mode:
Ste
p
Command
1. Enter system view.
system-view
2. Configure the load sharing mode.
ip load-sharing mode per-flow [ dest-ip | src-ip ]
CAUTION:
HP recommends confi
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urin
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the load sharin
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mode when no traffic passes throu
g
h the device to avoid
impact on certain services.
Configuring packet-based load sharing may affect some services.