Replication - Setup Question

[michel.weber]

A question about replication architecture.

Today i have set up our 2 boxes as described below
Appliance 1 is indexing our private (Intranet) sites individually and replicates them locally in a global index
Appliance 2 is indexing our public (Internet) sites individually and replicates them locally in a global index, it also replicates them to the remote global index.

Appliance 2
profA ==> Internet (local)
==> AllSites (Appliance 1)
profB ==> Internet (local)
==> AllSites (Appliance 1)
...
Appliance 1
profAA ==> AllSites (local)
profBB ==> AllSites (local)

Q : Is this the best setup?

It seems to work, but what about the following alternate setup?

Appliance 2
profA ==> Internet (local)
profB ==> Internet (local)
...
Internet ==> AllSites (Appliance 1)

Appliance 1
profAA ==> AllSites (local)
profBB ==> AllSites (local)

Is that better or worse?

[John]

Your architecture is correct. Replicated data is not re-replicated to prevent loops, so with the alternate setup the data would not make it from appliance 2 to appliance 1.