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For a long time enterprise firewalls (and more recently SD-WAN) allowed load balancing between different links, but unlike MPTCP the traffic of a single TCP con
by lo0dot0 2y ago
For a long time enterprise firewalls (and more recently SD-WAN) allowed load balancing between different links, but unlike MPTCP the traffic of a single TCP connection is not split up. This is in line with the established network admin wisdom saying that reordering packets of a TCP connection hurts performance.
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-load-balance-traffic-between-two-interfaces/ta-p/210812 https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Ho...