Transparent Proxy With Cisco, Nortel And Lucent; Http Load Balancing - F-SECURE INTERNET GATEKEEPER WINDOWS 2000-2003 SERVER 6.61 Administrator's Manual

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Transparent Proxy with Cisco, Nortel and Lucent

Examples
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HTTP Load Balancing

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
firewalls.html
Benefits
Professional transparent proxy support.
Easy to integrate.
Drawbacks
Requires additional software and hardware.
Requires extra skills to configure.
For detailed examples, see developer web sites.
Additional information
http://www.cisco.com/
http://www.nortelnetworks.com/
http://www.lucent.com/
If you want to ensure that the speed of the communication does not slow
down and is not interrupted when scanning the traffic for malicious code,
you should set up load balancing.
With load balancing, the load (for example, number of requests and
users) is spread throughout the network so that individual devices do not
receive too much traffic and fail. Load balancing includes the redirection
of the traffic if the server or device malfunctions so that secondary servers
can assume the duties of primary servers if primary servers fail.
APPENDIX F
Advanced Deployment Options
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