Forwarding Mode (Dedicated Load Balancers)

The load balancer routes the traffic across backend servers based on the forwarding mode. There are two options: Load balancing and Active/Standby.

This feature is only available for backend server groups that are bound to dedicated load balancers.

**Table 1** Forwarding modes
Forwarding Mode	Description	When to Use
Load balancing	You can add multiple backend servers to a backend server group. And then the load balancer distributes requests across these backend servers based on the load balancing algorithm configured for this backend server group.	You want your load balancer to forward requests based on the forwarding policies configured for the listener.
Active/Standby	You must add two backend servers to the backend server group, one acting as the active server and the other as the standby server. Active/Standby forwarding requires at least one healthy backend server. The load balancer routes the traffic to the active server if it works normally. If the active server becomes unhealthy, the load balancer then routes the traffic to the standby server.	You need higher service availability.