Introduction to Web Switching & Load Balancing

(TRNG-0202)

To fully benefit from this course you should posses: a working knowledge of the listed technologies and the following personal hardware during the week of attendance:

• Foundry Networks Command Line Interface
• Foundry Router Interfaces addressing
• Domain Name Service (DNS)
• The Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model
• The classification of TCP/UDP traffic based on port number
• The structure of a URL address (Prefix / Pattern / Suffix )

• Laptop Personal Computer with W95 or higher
• Ethernet NIC card
• CD Drive
• Serial Interface

The TRNG-202 course is a comprehensive study of the layer 4 through 7 features of Foundry Networks ServerIron Products. The student gains hands on experience in configuration of typical installations with the ServerIron product. Lecture topics are supported with real world labs involving: Source NAT, Direct Server Return, Active-Active Server Load Balancing, Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB) and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB).

• Identify where Foundry ServerIron Products are used in a Typical Data Network.
• Configure ServerIrons in Layer 4 through 7 applications
• Incorporate fault tolerance and high availability at:

The local level with multiple servers that failover.

The public address level with Multiple Virtual IP addresses (VIPs) that failover.

The global level with multiple business sites that failover.

• Redirect content to cache servers without configuring a browser proxy.
• Configure Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB)
• Implement Policy Based Switching keying on SSL ID,cookie, or URL parsing