CSS ACTIVE/ACTIVE SCENARIO WITH JUST TWO SERVERS ??? POSSIBLE??

Hi
I'm gonna have a setup of TWO CSS11503 Content Switches with standard WEBNS feature set
in an ACTIVE / ACTIVE VIP and Virtual interface redundancy scenario for load-balancing just
two web servers initially.
Can I hv this setup up & running if I configure the two servers with different default
gateway addresses on the private side and two static routes in the private side Layer3
for two different VIP addresses in the public side ??
Any better suggestions for this scenario.
Thanx

Firstly - what Gilles said.
Having said that, I'm using some content switches in active/active modes in a couple of places in a geographically distributed gateway. Active/Active lets us improve our redundancy characteristics and allow for device failures as well as link failures between the gateways.
There are lots of complexities that arise if you take this path - you will need to do a lot of logical math and testing about traffic symmetry under all of the different failure conditions, because you introduce the possibility that response traffic could come back at L2/L3 through a different CSS than the request traffic.

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