Transparent Mode; Hash-Based Load Balancing - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring the Catena Solution

Transparent Mode

Transparent Mode
Figure 1: Transparent Mode shows the traffic flow between appliances in the transparent mode when Catena
is enabled, enabled with bad traffic, and disabled. Any traffic that is not secured and is expected to be blocked
by the firewall is bad traffic.
Figure 1: Transparent Mode

Hash-based Load Balancing

Catena uses source IP or destination IP to determine the egress interface. Egress interface ports are bundled
using the link aggregation control protocol (LACP), and hash algorithms are used for symmetric load balancing.
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