User guide

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In most situations, the incoming traffic is in small requests, and return traffic from servers
back to clients is large amount of data, pictures, or documents. Using Out-of-Path Mode will
allow up to 100 times more traffic to be handled by the WebMux load balancer. The
disadvantage for OOP/direct response is that the firewall protections built-in to the WebMux
will no longer function. Users must provide their own firewall for incoming and outgoing
traffic.
However, in L7 and SSL termination configuration, OOP mode does not gain any advantage,
due to the requirement that return traffic from servers must go back to WebMux for
examination of the data headers and/or re-encryption the data packets.