Port Rules Filtering Mode and Affinity

Within an NLB cluster port rule, the NLB administrator must configure the appropriate filtering mode. This allows the administrator to specify whether only one node or multiple nodes in the cluster can respond to requests from a single client throughout a session. There are three filtering modes: Single Host, Disable This Port Range, and Multiple Host.

Single Host Filtering Mode

The Single Host filtering mode ensures that all traffic sent to the cluster IP address that matches a port rule with this filtering mode enabled is handled exclusively in the cluster by one particular cluster node.

Disable This Port Range Filtering Mode

The Disable This Port Range filtering mode tells the cluster which ports are ...

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