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7.9 Add Gateway Farm
Gateway Farms allow you to load balance outgoing traffic between multiple external
gateways. The gateways can be routers, proxy servers, firewalls or edge servers. The
gateways will be balanced in a Weighted Round Robin Persistent fashion. By default,
incoming traffic will be replied through the gateway it came from.
To create a gateway farm, click on the “Add Farm” button from the main status screen. In
the “Add Farm” screen, click on the “Add Gateway Farm” button on the left:
When you click on the link you will be brought to the “Add Gateway Farm” screen:
IP Address:
The main WebMux IP address will automatically be entered in this field. This address serves
no other purpose than to be what the WebMux will use as its source IP when checking the
health status of the gateway IP address.