VRRP with PBR and VLANs

The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) is an IP address that acts as a gateway between the router and the appliances. The VRRP receives the traffic requests, and distributes the requests to the appliances connected to it. This allows for greater reliability and the balancing traffic requests to the various appliances.

The switch can be configured to act as a VLAN, allowing appliances that are connected to different physical switches to be grouped together. If the network has existing VLANs configured, this out-of-path Exinda appliance configuration improves latency and increases performance.

	Note All traffic between the network components in this diagram is bi-directional.

1. The client computer requests access to a location on the Internet.
2. The request is sent to the router, where the source, destination is analyzed and compared to the policy configured on the router.
3. Based on the results of the analysis, the request is:

   1. sent to the switch, which evenly distributes the traffic between the connected Exinda appliances, and then back through the router to the requested destination.

   2. sent directly to the requested destination.

Related topics

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