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This article describes the fundamentals of load balancing across multiple frontned IP addresses. If you only intend to expose services on one IP address, you can find simplified instructions for [public](./quickstart-load-balancer-standard-public-portal.md) or [internal](./quickstart-load-balancer-standard-internal-portal.md) load balancer configurations. Adding multiple frontends is incremental to a single frontend configuration. Using the concepts in this article, you can expand a simplified configuration at any time.
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When you define an Azure Load Balancer, a frontend and a backend pool configuration are connected with a load balancing rule. The health probe referenced by the load balancing rule is used to determine the health of a VM on a certain port and protocol. Based on the health probe results, new flows are sent to VMs in the backend pool. The frontend is defined using a three-tuple comprised of a frontend IP address (public or internal), a protocol (UDP or TCP), and a port number from the load balancing rule. The backend pool is a collection of Virtual Machine IP configurations. Multiple load balancing rules can deliver flows to the same backend pool instance on different ports by varying the destination port on the load balancing rule.
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When you define an Azure Load Balancer, a frontend and a backend pool configuration are connected with a load balancing rule. The health probe referenced by the load balancing rule is used to determine the health of a VM on a certain port and protocol. Based on the health probe results, new flows are sent to VMs in the backend pool. The frontend is defined using a three-tuple comprised of a frontend IP address (public or internal), a protocol, and a port number from the load balancing rule. The backend pool is a collection of Virtual Machine IP configurations. Multiple load balancing rules can deliver flows to the same backend pool instance on different ports by varying the destination port on the load balancing rule.
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You can use multiple frontends (and the associated load balacing rules) to load balance to the same backend port or a different backend port. If you want to load balance to the same backend port, you must enable [Azure Load Balancer Floating IP configuration](load-balancer-floating-ip.md) as part of the load balancing rules for each frontend.
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7. Select **Save**.
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Next you must associate the frontend IP configuration you have created with an appropriate load balancing rule. Refer to [Manage rules for Azure Load Balancer](manage-rules-how-to/md#load-balancing-rules) for more information on how to do this.
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## Remove a frontend
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In this example, you'll remove a frontend IP configuration.
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## Limitations
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* With the Floating IP rule, your application must use the primary IP configuration for outbound SNAT flows. If your application binds to the frontend IP address configured on the loopback interface in the guest OS, Azure's outbound SNAT won't rewrite the outbound flow, and the flow fails. Review [outbound scenarios](load-balancer-outbound-connections.md).
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* With the Floating IP rule, your application must use the primary IP configuration of the network interface of your virtual machine for outbound flows. If your application binds to the frontend IP address configured on the loopback interface in the guest OS, Azure's outbound won't rewrite the outbound flow, and the flow fails. Review [outbound scenarios](load-balancer-outbound-connections.md).
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* Floating IP isn't currently supported on secondary IP configurations.
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* Public IP addresses have an effect on billing. For more information, see [IP Address pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/ip-addresses/)
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* Subscription limits apply. For more information, see [Service limits](../azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits.md#networking-limits) for details.

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