Network Load Balancing (NLB) is a component in Windows Server operating systems that load balances network traffic (sent to a cluster virtual IP address) among multiple servers in an NLB cluster.
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Does Windows 2008 Server Standard Edition, support Network Load Balancing?
Does Windows 2008 Server Standard Edition, support Network Load Balancing?

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Achieving mTLS with AWS ALB
If I have an ALB in my infrastructure with ECS target groups downstream, will SSL/TLS always be terminated at the ALB?
If so, are my only options ELB/NLB to preserve the SSL/TLS context?

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HTTPS 308 permanent redirection k8s ingress nginx
I have created an EKS cluster following the examples from AWS EKS, I have deployed the nginx ingress controller on top from kubernetes/nginx, Created an ingress resource which points to back end k8s services, However, when I am trying to query via…

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Does AWS Network Load Balancer decrypt packet in TLS termination mode?
Architecture:
client <-- TLS --> AWS Network Load Balancer port:443 <-- TLS --> backend server port:443
In the above architecture, TLS is terminated at the network load balancer (NLB).
Is TLS termination possible without decrypting packets?
If TLS…

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Problems connecting 2nd host to NLB cluster
I've recently deployed Hyper-V into my hosting infrastructure and i'm trying to setup windows network load balancing and ARR so that i can have 2 VM web servers that are load balanced by 2 ARR servers running NLB.
I have the following setup:
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ISP Load Balancing with ISA 2006
I understand that ISA 2006 has an integrated Network Load Balancing feature. We also recently acquired a second internet line through a second service provider. I know it is possible to purchase a NLB router for using both incoming lines but this…

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Can I use NLB to balance multiple sites on the same (n) servers?
I know this is probably a simple question, but I can't seem to find a definitive answer anywhere. We have two servers (Win2K3 SP1) running a single website on IIS 6.0 under NLB. Each server is running two network adapters, currently with one…

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Microsoft NLB (Network Load Balancing) and the OSI Layer
I'm unable to track down in the documentation at which layer MS NLB operates at. I'm pretty sure it's unable to interpret Application Layer 7 traffic, for example knowing that HTTP 503 is actually an outage.
In my understanding it sits somewhere on…

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Windows NLB is not forwarding UDP
I have setup Windows NLB which works fine with http. But it is not forwarding the UDP reply to the client.
Backgroud:
NLB - 192.168.1.10
Host1 - 192.168.1.11
Client - 192.168.1.5
I am forward all the ports including UDP and TCP protocols.
But…

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Why is IIS not allowing TCP connections from external IPs through NLB
I've got a development web server environment consisting of 2 Windows 2012 VM's configured with NLB (Multicast mode.) They are each using a single network adapter with 2 IP's assigned: the shared NLB IP, and their non-shared individual IP. Our usage…

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Is it possible to run HAProxy load balancer on Windows Server 2012 R2 Base for production?
I want to run HAProxy on Windows Server 2012 R2 Base for production. I read this blog: http://zcourts.com/2012/09/29/install-haproxy-on-windows-cygwin-good-for-testing and it conveys that HAProxy on Windows is good for testing.
If not HAProxy, what…

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how should i store files for iis web root on windows servers in nlb configuration?
I have multiple windows virtual machines in a network load balanced environment. They each have a local disk (C: drive) that has the files for delivering our website (inetpub/wwwroot). The problem is that any change I need to make to a web page…

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Issues with NLB on Windows 2012
I'm running into an issue when setting up NLB for three virtual servers on vSphere. Each server is running Windows Server 2012 and has a single static IP address. One of the servers has a second NIC with an external-facing IP address. Windows NLB is…

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Windows Service Bus and Network Load Balancing
I'm looking to build an HA service bus farm, hopefully using Microsoft NLB on Windows Server 2012 R2, something like what is described here.
In the output below 9354 belongs to Microsoft.ServiceBus.Gateway.exe and 9356 belongs to…

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Windows Server 2012 NLB logging
Can somebody clarify to me what are the best practices when it comes to configuring logging and monitoring for Windows Server 2012 NLB. I believe there are 2 types of logging from management service and network driver. One of them (not sure which)…

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