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OSDOCS-6067#updating doc text about external IP
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By setting this field, {product-title} assigns an additional virtual IP address to the service. The IP address can be outside the service network defined for the cluster.
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A service configured with an ExternalIP functions similarly to a service with `type=NodePort`, allowing you to direct traffic to a local node for load balancing.
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You must configure your networking infrastructure to ensure that the external IP address blocks that you define are routed to the cluster.
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You must configure your networking infrastructure to ensure that the external IP address blocks that you define are routed to the cluster. As a result, the IP address is not configured in the network interfaces from nodes. To handle the traffic, you must configure the routing and access to the external IP by using a method such as static Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) entries.
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{product-title} extends the ExternalIP functionality in Kubernetes by adding the following capabilities:
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