Enhanced MEP Support
Nokia IP45 Security Platform User’s Guide v4.0
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Figure 18
Fully Overlapping Encryption Domain
Load distribution
—the remote VPN peers randomly select a gateway to open a VPN session.
For each IP source and destination address pair, a new gateway is selected randomly.
You can enable load distribution when you have a number of working Check Point VPN
gateways in your network with equal performance abilities.
Figure 19
Load Distribution
First to respond
—the first gateway to reply to the peer gateway is chosen. That is, when two
gateways are made available with the MEP configuration, the gateway located at the nearest
geographical end responds first.