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title: Load Balancer FAQ
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description: Discover Scaleway Load Balancer and find the answers to all your questions about flexible IP addresses, IPv6, multi-cloud offers and more.
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h1: Load Balancer FAQ
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h1: Load Balancer
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dates:
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validation: 2024-09-25
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category: network
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By default, each [public](/load-balancer/concepts/#accessibility) Load Balancer is created automatically with a flexible IPv4 address. This is a public IP that can be held in your account even after you delete your Load Balancer. You can optionally also add an IPv6 address.
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**This IP address is fixed and does not risk changing once attached to your Load Balancer**.
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Your frontend listens to your Load Balancer's public flexible IP address. In case of a failure of the Load Balancer, a replica Load Balancer is immediately spawned and deployed, and the IP address is automatically rerouted to this replica. This is done automatically, by the Load Balancer control subsystems.
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When you delete a Load Balancer, you can choose to keep its flexible IP(s) in your account, to reuse later with a new Load Balancer. These flexible IPs are not compatible with other Scaleway products (e.g. Instances, Elastic Metal servers, Public Gateways): each resource has its own set of flexible IPs.
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Each Load Balancer can have one public IPv4 address and one public IPv6 address. Currently, it is not possible to assign more than one of each type of IP to a given Load Balancer.
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## How can I move my Instance's flexible IP address to my Load Balancer?
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This is not possible: flexible IPs are scoped to the resource-type that they were created for. You can move a flexible IP between different Instances, but not move it to a Load Balancer.
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Watch this space for resource-agnostic flexible IPs in the future.
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## Do Load Balancers support external IPv6 connections?
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Yes, Load Balancer supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses at the frontend. IPv6 can also be used to communicate between the Load Balancer and your backend servers.
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All protocols based on `TCP` are supported. This includes `database`, `HTTP`, `LDAP`, `IMAP` and so on. You can also specify `HTTP` to benefit from support and features that are exclusive to this protocol.
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Scaleway Load Balancer does not currently support `UDP`.
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## Is it possible to add security to restrict access to a URL or port on the Load Balancer?
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Yes, you can restrict the use of a `TCP` port or `HTTP` URL using ACLs. Find more information in our [ACL documentation](/load-balancer/how-to/create-manage-acls/).
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## Can I set up a caching service for my load balanced application?
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Yes, this is possible with Scaleway's [Edge Services](/edge-services/) product, currently in Public Beta. By creating an Edge Services pipeline for your Load Balancer, you can access Edge Services caching service reduce load on your origin.
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Yes, this is possible with Scaleway's [Edge Services](/edge-services/) product, currently in Public Beta. By creating an Edge Services pipeline for your Load Balancer, you can access Edge Services caching service reduce load on your origin.
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## How can I add extra security such as a firewall or anti-DDOS to my Load Balancer?
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This will be available soon via [Edge Services](/edge-services/), watch this space.
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