Quoting <5.0.1.4.0.20010207183815.032e9f80 at 212.17.32.225>
by Thomas Bridge <tbridge at vianetworks.ie>:
> > > If so, they look tasty, but the problem is they only do web.
> >They do firewall load balancing as well, but yeah, for generic L4
> >switching there are cheaper options.
> WE had a presentation from the Cisco/Arrowpoint people a few months
> back - from what they said, you couldn't use them to simply redirect
> TCP traffic (eg switch SMTP connections over multiple servers).
> When pressed on this they said that if thats what we wanted to do we
> needed to use a different product from the Cisco range.
Hmm, I can't say we ever actually tried it, but I had the impression
it could be configured to do generic balancing etc. However the
firewall load balancing is definitely a supported feature.
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