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Load Sharing Vs Load Balancing for Dummies

The term load balancing and load sharing are used interchangeably which is not correct. The overall functioning overlaps with each other but at one stage there is one significant difference. The reason for usage of interchangeability is due the mechanism deployed at various context and term associated with them such HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, NAT or DNS based load sharing, equal/unequal cost path load sharing, ether channeling, reverse proxy, round robin, weighted queue etc. Let take look at below explanation.

Master your IP Subnetting Skills

In real life scenario we use various free tools to quickly calculate the IP sub-net but if you are preparing for an exam or an interview this is an favorite question asked and we need to be prepared for this question. To master IP sub-netting you need to keep practicing and follow a simple method which will ease this effort. The scope is limited just to quickly find the network number or calculate number of host and sub-net as quickly as possible for details you will have to refer other study material. Magic Number 256 minus < sub-net mask > = magic number. Example:  128.0.0.0 256 minus 128= 128  255.192.0.0 256 minus 192= 64  255.255.224.0 256 minus 224= 32  255.255.255.248 256 minus 248= 8  Figuring out which network a particular host belongs to?   Take 172.26. 180 .185  255.255. 248 .0 for example.  172.26 we don't worry about, and same with the .185   Take 256 - 248 = 8 (increments of 8 to be exact) Magic number!!!  Take 180 divide by 8 = 22.5