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Foundry Networks


Introduction to Web Switching & Load Balancing


(TRNG-0202)

Prerequisites

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:

Working Knowledge of:
  • 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 )
Personal hardware:
  • Laptop Personal Computer with W95 or higher
  • Ethernet NIC card
  • CD Drive
  • Serial Interface

Course Content

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).

Course Objectives

After completing this course, the student will be able to:
  • 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