Chapter 9 High Availability for FortiOS 5.0 : An introduction to the FGCP : FGCP HA terminology : Load balancing
  
Load balancing
Also known as active-active HA. All units in the cluster process network traffic. The FGCP employs a technique similar to unicast load balancing. The primary unit interfaces are assigned virtual MAC addresses which are associated on the network with the cluster IP addresses. The primary unit is the only cluster unit to receive packets sent to the cluster. The primary unit can process packets itself, or propagate them to subordinate units according to a load balancing schedule. Communication between the cluster units uses the actual cluster unit MAC addresses.