Enabling the link protection feature

Perform this task to prevent traffic from overwhelming a busy link. If traffic exceeds the bandwidth ratio of a link, the LB device distributes new traffic that does not match any sticky entries to other links.

This feature takes effect only when bandwidth statistics collection by interfaces is enabled.

To enable the link protection feature:

Step

Command

Remarks

1. Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2. Enter virtual server view.

virtual-server virtual-server-name

N/A

3. Enable the link protection feature.

bandwidth busy-protection enable

By default, the link protection feature is disabled.