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Blackmail88
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Aug 12, 2024

About Self IP, and Virtual IP

hi all,   i just learning F5 about 1 month, so i have a lot of quiestion regarding how actually F5 works. especially about Self IP and Virtual IP. as far as i know Self IP is an IP address for VLAN...
F5 SelfIP
  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
    Aug 12, 2024

    Something like above? You can easy make such drawing with draw.io or such, it helps a lot in explaining networks and asking questions about them.

     

    Then indeed, as long as the user knows that the virtual server IPs can be reached via the self IP through routing there is no actually TCP connection with the selfIP.

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Blackmail88
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Aug 12, 2024

hi boneyard

 

thanks alot for your response to my thread hehee, anyway YES it is a L3 switch, all segments are use the L3 switch as the gateway. for topology its more like a letter "T" hopefully you can imagine it ^^

 

also, based on you assumption, i can say there is no relation between Self IP and Virtual IP, as long as the source can reach that ip segment ?

 

thanks and regards

bram,

  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Aug 12, 2024

    Something like above? You can easy make such drawing with draw.io or such, it helps a lot in explaining networks and asking questions about them.

     

    Then indeed, as long as the user knows that the virtual server IPs can be reached via the self IP through routing there is no actually TCP connection with the selfIP.