Network Load Balances

kitkat9933 · 11 May 2016 at 15:38

Does traffic actually flow through Windows NLB or other NLBS and then it's forwarded to the host based it's on it's balancing algorithm or does it just return a DNS entry of which host the traffic is being sent to?

kitkat9933 · 11 May 2016 at 20:46

Xez said:
It should load balance it dependant on the load of each node and send new sessions or traffic to the one with the least amount of load if that is how you have configured it.... Otherwise you are going through additional work for what could be achieved with DNS round robin.

Thanks for that, but I think I might of phrased the question wrong.

Does the traffic physically flow through an NLB which then forwards it to the correct destination (like a router), or does the NLB literally tell it which server to send the traffic to (so just responds to the question)

kitkat9933 · 12 May 2016 at 10:58

Thanks for that, really useful

For third party network load balances, e.g. A10, would this be similar?

kitkat9933 · 12 May 2016 at 12:33

Wonderful, exactly what I needed.