The IP Front End (
IPFE) is a traffic distributor that transparently does the following:
- Presents a routable IP address representing a set of up to 16 application servers to application clients. This reduces the number of addresses with which the clients need to be configured.
- Routes packets from the clients that establish new TCP or SCTP connections to selected application servers.
- Routes packets in existing TCP or SCTP connections to the correct servers for the connection.
