Load Balancing
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You can find the Load Balancing at **Routing → Routes** in the tab **Load Balancing**.

Load Balancing allows you to use multiple routing tables at the same time.
This might be necessary to load balance over multiple Gateways.

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    :alt: Routing Load Balancing

**Name** so you can identify it.

**Description** is a description of the Load Balancing.

**Policy** can be either *Random*, *IP Source Address* or *IP Source Address + IP Destination Address*. It is *Random* by default.
The policy decides on how each state is pinned to one *Routing Table*.
A decision is made on state creation and the chosen *Routing Table* will stay the same for a connection for its lifetime.
Be aware that this can lead to problems with servers that require multiple open connections, as the source IP might not be the same for
all connections when load balanced.

Multiple **Routing Tables** can be added with a **Priority** of 1 to 99.

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    :alt: Routing Create Load Balancing