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I have a watchguard M400 (Fireware XTM 11.10) Firewall/Router with about 14 Branch Office VPN'c coming into it. We have a new software these BOVPN's need to access. There are two application servers running the software. I would like to load balance the connections to these servers. Can someone point me in the correct direction?
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I have a watchguard M400 (Fireware XTM 11.10) Firewall/Router with about 14 Branch Office VPN'c coming into it. We have a new software these BOVPN's need to access. There are two application servers running the software. I would like to load balance the connections to these servers. Can someone point me in the correct direction?

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Routers

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