In past releases, LoadMaster High Availability (HA) status information was communicated between HA partners over a multicast IP address (224.0.0.x); there was no other option. With this release, a new HA parameter (Use Broadcast IP address) can be optionally set to use the broadcast IP address 255.255.255.255 instead of a multicast address. This allows HA configurations to be established on networks where the use of multicast IP addressing is specifically disabled.