Streaming Media

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You can use Network Load Balancing to distribute client requests among several streaming media servers.

If you add a host to the cluster, the statistical-mapping algorithm in Network Load Balancing maps some clients to the new host. Because Network Load Balancing cannot detect the start and termination of streams that use the UDP protocol, active streams for clients that are mapped to the new host mid-stream are interrupted. (This behavior does not occur for streams that use the TCP protocol.) As much as possible, add hosts to the cluster only at times that minimize possible disruptions to clients.

Port-rules Settings

Port Range: 0–65535

Filtering Mode: Multiple Hosts

Affinity: Single

Load Weight/Equal load distribution: Equal