Tips and Tricks

Helpful Items

yum install httpd-tools
for i in {1..100}; do ab -n 1000 -c 100 http://www.google.com; done

ab

Gateway Load Balancer Limitations & Considerations

  1. Flow Stickiness
    1. Currently GWLB flow hashing default 5 Tuple (TCP) and 4 Tuple (UDP)
      • Multi layered protocols may be hashed differently
    2. Currently flows are sticky for their lifetime. If an appliance crashes, the application must re-establish TCP flow
  2. Flow idle timeouts
    1. Currently fixed and unchangable
      • 350s for TCP
      • 120s for UDP
  3. No VPN
    • Currently Check Point does not support VPN with GWLB architectures
  4. Cost
    • GWLB & GWLBe both have per hour per AZ costs & a Data charge