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Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

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6<br />

<strong>Web</strong> filtering<br />

Supporting functions<br />

Next-hop proxy modes<br />

When multiple servers are available as next-hop proxies for routing requests, the next-hop proxy<br />

module can use two modes to call them: round-robin and fail-over.<br />

When routing a request in round-robin mode, the next-hop proxy module calls the server that is next<br />

on the list to the one that was called last time.<br />

For the next request, this is handled in the same way, so all servers on the list will eventually have<br />

been used as next-hop proxies.<br />

Figure 6-1 Round-robin mode<br />

When routing a request in fail-over mode, the next-hop proxy module calls the first server on the list.<br />

If the server fails to respond, the call is repeated until the configured number of retries is reached. Only<br />

then is the next server in the list tried. It is called in the same way as the first, and eventually the next<br />

server in the list is tried.<br />

This is continued until a server responds or all servers in the list were found to be unavailable.<br />

Figure 6-2 Fail-over mode<br />

234 <strong>McAfee</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Gateway</strong> <strong>7.1.5</strong> <strong>Product</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>

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