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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Steve Gonczi wrote:
> Jim,
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> In a NAT configuration, the primary bottleneck is the return traffic.
> Web traffic tends to be very asymmetrical (the ratio between incoming and
> outgoing traffic may be as high as 1:50 and the front-end server has to
> process all return traffic).
We all thought this till someone went and measured what was happening.
This assymmetry in byte throughput turns out not to matter. LVS is a
packet pusher and it's the number of packets that are important.
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/Joseph.Mack/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO_1.0-5.html#ss5.2
Joe
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