Patent ID: 9749148
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for a device intermediary to a plurality of clients and servers to load balance layer 2 devices, the method comprising: (a) establishing, via a device intermediary to a plurality of clients and each of a plurality of servers and a plurality of layer 2 devices, for each layer 2 device of the plurality of layer 2 devices, a respective first traffic domain corresponding to ingress traffic received from the plurality of clients and a respective second traffic domain corresponding to egress traffic received from the plurality of servers; (b) binding, via configuration of the device, for each layer 2 device of the plurality of layer 2 devices, a respective first virtual local area network (VLAN) to the respective first traffic domain of the layer 2 device and a respective second VLAN to the second traffic domain of the layer 2 device; (c) creating, via configuration of the device, for each layer 2 device, a respective subnet internet protocol (SNIP) address in the respective second traffic domain corresponding to egress traffic of the layer 2 device; (d) establishing, via configuration of the device, a plurality of services corresponding to the plurality of layer 2 devices, each service of the plurality of services established in a respective first traffic domain corresponding to ingress traffic of a respective layer 2 device of the plurality of layer 2 devices and configured such that the SNIP address corresponding to the layer 2 device is used as the IP address of the service; and (e) establishing, via configuration of the device, a virtual server to load balance the plurality of services corresponding to the plurality of layer 2 devices, the virtual server bound to a virtual IP address to route traffic from the plurality of clients and the plurality of servers to the virtual server.