213 Load Balancing of Servers Scenario: Balance the load on a set of identical servers, which are accessible from a single IP address NAT solution: –Here, the servers are assigned private addresses –NAT device acts as a proxy for requests to the server from the public network –The NAT device changes the destination IP address of arriving packets to one of the private addresses for a server –A sensible strategy for balancing the load of the servers is to assign the addresses of the servers in a round-robin fashion.
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