1. IP Front End (IPFE)
  2. Introduction to IPFE

2 Introduction to IPFE

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.