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The WebMux™ Model 480S, 580SG, and 680PG User Guide – Version 7.0.x

of a group of servers that service the same domain, website or services. For

example, to configure a farm (or virtual farm) to serve www.cainetworks.com:

• First, Server 1 and Server 2 would each need the website

www.cainetworks.com configured on them and HTTP/HTTPS services

started, and

• Second, a farm on the WebMux™ is defined with Server 1 and Server 2 in

it. The servers would be setup to either share the traffic, or setup as a

primary server and standby server. In either case, if Server 1 goes down,

then all traffic will be automatically directed to Server 2 by the WebMux™.

In Out-of-Path mode, only one network in the setup, that is the server LAN, is

connected to the Internet through the firewall and router. Internet traffic or local

connections can both be directly sent to the WebMux™ , which routes the

packets to the proper server(s), then the server routes the return traffic back to

the remote or local clients directly.

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-