[c-nsp] SLB Question

[Seth Mattinen]

Paul Stewart wrote:
> Thanks.... there's a lot of other servers in the same subnet (layer2
> adjacent as well) and they must be able to talk....  that confirms what I
> thought I was understanding from the docs...
> 
> We can of course do this server level...;)  
> 
> My last question would then be if we ran NAT with SLB then the servers
> having to cross layer3 comes out of the equation correct... because with
> NAT, there would be a translation happening which would handle the actual
> SLB portion?
> 


My understanding is that traffic can't traverse the same interface for 
or be on the same L2 in any form for SLB to work.

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Seth Mattinen		sethm at rollernet.us
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