What does a load balancer distribute in a network environment?

The correct answer is B. incoming traffic across multiple servers. A load balancer sits in front of a pool of servers and distributes incoming client traffic (requests) across those servers to prevent any single server from becoming a bottleneck, improving availability and scalability. It does not distribute TCP connections to routers (A) - that

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Adifferent TCP connections to the routers
Bincoming traffic across multiple servers
Ctraffic in the network by leveraging the switch architecture
Doutgoing connections to the network

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A load balancer sits in front of a pool of servers and distributes incoming client traffic (requests) across those servers to prevent any single server from becoming a bottleneck, improving availability and scalability. It does not distribute TCP connections to routers (A) - that is a routing function. It does not manage internal switch architecture traffic (C). It does not distribute outgoing connections (D) - that would be a NAT or proxy function.

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#Load balancing#Network services#Traffic distribution#High availability

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