Re: F5 configuration help is needed

It seems you received thorough responses on the routing question.

Regarding the management interface, the out-of-band management interface must be on a separate IP range from your production addresses.  However, it is not necessary to use this management interface: you can fully manage the device via the in-band IP addresses if you so choose.  So just assign an unused IP range to the management network and leave it disconnected.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rosenberry, Eric
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:18 PM
To: Load Balancing Mailing List
Subject: Re: [load balancing] F5 configuration help is needed

You can use "SNAT" to implement it on only a single network.  This will have the F5 translate the source IP of all TCP sessions to it's own IP such that return traffic goes back through the F5.

I am not sure about the management interface.  I think it was "not recommended" but I am not sure that means you cannot do it.  ;-)  (not that I would recommend it)

Is there a reason that you do not implement the F5 virtual servers and the actual servers in private address space?  If you have a firewall that can do NAT this is the common way to do it (in front of the F5 and servers).

-Eric

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of sezen eren
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:49 PM
To: Load Balancing Mailing List
Subject: [load balancing] F5 configuration help is needed

Hi all,

I have an F5 installed in our system and I need to configure it.

the servers behind F5 will be in same address range with the all servers in the network, there will be no privite VLAN behind F5, therefore I cannot implement NAT for the pool members, so I cannot forward traffic to these hosts?

Since there will be no private internal vlan, I guessI need to use only external vlan and all traffic from outworld to F5 and from pool members to F5 shall go to external vlan.

one more thing F5 doesn't let me set a management IP in the range of self IPs? I need to configure the management IP in same range becase I have been given /25 IP range to use for everything traffic, management bla bla :), how could I set this management IP within the self IPs range?

I would appreciate if any of you can share configuration files of such an structure?

br
//sezen


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