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4.7 Multihoming
Figure 4.11 The Location of “Service / Multihoming” on the Menu Bar
BR-6641’s auto-routing service is a trunking technology that provides load balancing
and fault tolerance for all outbound requests. But it does not apply to inbound
requests. Based on a unique technology called SwiftDNS TM , BR-6641 offers a
Multihoming service for load balancing and fault tolerance for inbound requests. The
minimum requirement for Multihoming is that you must have multiple WAN links and
registered domain names for your publicly accessible servers. Whenever BR-6641
receives a DNS query; it answers the DNS query with a public IP address assigned
to one of the WAN links according to the settings of your answering policies.
Therefore, subsequent requests to your server will be sent the public IP of the WAN
link based on BR-6641’s previous response. You can configure your answering
policies with a weight for each WAN link so that the public IPs returned will be
distributed evenly by weight. If one of your WAN links fails, BR-6641 will not return
the public IP assigned to that failed link nevertheless your publicly accessible servers