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How is response delivered if TCP load balancer / proxy terminates the connection?

It seems that (some) TCP load balancers would terminate the connection from client before sending the request to the backend server. I'm wondering what does the "terminates" mean. If it means closing the connection then how would the response be sent back to the client? Thanks!

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Steffen Ullrich
Steffen Ullrich

Reputation: 123561

If it means closing the connection ...

No it doesn't. Terminating in this context means that the endpoint of the TCP connection from the client is the load balancer. The load balancer then creates a different connection between load balancer and server to transfer the data.

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