Re: F5 configuration help is needed

Ali Abbas <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:52:05 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.load-balancing.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Rosenberry, Eric
<[email protected]> wrote:
> We actually have our F5 deployed in this manner, but one major issue for us is that without SNAT turned on, if you have one server on the subnet that needs to access another service through the F5 (that gets directed to other servers on the same subnet) then the packets end up flowing in a triangle and it does not work.

Layer 2 ARP... TCP segments are out of state and the receiving server
drops them... totally normal. You have no other alternative than
sourcing the VIP of the F5 (SNAT), so the packets are not longer out
of state when reaching one of the endpoints.

B.R

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