Specifications

2 Barracuda Link Balancer Administrator’s Guide
Figure 1.1: Barracuda Link Balancer Functionality
About this Guide
This guide provides a general discussion of the features and concepts that you need to understand in
order to best configure the Barracuda Link Balancer. Other than the installation instructions that are
in Installing the Barracuda Link Balancer on page 7, you will find that detailed, procedural
configuration steps are in the online help of the Web user interface.
When referring to specific feature settings, this guide specifies the name of the tab in the Web user
interface followed by a ( >) and the actual page name. For example, you can view link utilization and
performance statistics on the
Basic > Status page.
Features of the Barracuda Link Balancer
This section describes the features of the Barracuda Link Balancer:
Link Management ................................................................................ 3
Aggregating Link Bandwidth ............................................................... 3
Link Failover ....................................................................................... 3
Outbound Link Load Balancing........................................................... 3
Inbound Link Balancing and Failover................................................. 3
VLAN Support ...................................................................................... 4
High Availability .................................................................................. 4
Persistence ........................................................................................... 4
Bandwidth Management and Quality of Service (QoS)....................... 4
Traditional Firewall............................................................................. 4
Site-to-Site VPN and Link Failover ..................................................... 5
Ability to Deploy with Your Network Firewall .................................... 5
Local Network Services ....................................................................... 6
Reporting ............................................................................................. 6
Web User Interface .............................................................................. 6