With the Load Balancing function, you can distribute incoming service traffic to several backend machines. This could be SMTP or HTTP traffic, for example.
With the Load Balancing function, you can distribute incoming service traffic to several backend machines. This could be SMTP or HTTP traffic, for example.
I don't think distributing traffic would be a snap; for that to work, the TCP session state info would have to be shared across "loosely-coupled" network connections. Unless you had something like (expensive) fibre channel going between the machines as a network bus, I thinl the performance would be poor.
But it would be huge for letting you farm out proxy services to other boxes (blade array, anyone?). This would let it scale for enterprises and ISPs...
