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anand_4461
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Dec 03, 2011

asm and ace forward and reverse traffic

Hi all,

 

 

In our datacentre setup , we have f5 asm & ace- cisco for loadbalancing

 

 

in which f5 is configured with self ip& below the selfip,the nodeip is there which is inturn the

 

virtual ip for Ace t2 context

 

 

the incoming traffic on f5 is like

 

Publicip:xx--> f5.selfip:80-->Ace virtualip:yy

 

 

for the ace request handling is of below

 

Ace.virtualip:yy-->Rserver:xx

 

 

but here the issue is that reverse http response flow is some what not analogous

 

rserver:xx-->f5.selfip:80 & back to the Public ip

 

 

myquery is that why the reply back from the rserver is not given back to ace virtual ip, but to the selfip of f5

 

 

 

Thanks

 

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  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    Dec 04, 2011
    myquery is that why the reply back from the rserver is not given back to ace virtual ip, but to the selfip of f5isn't it ace configuration matter? what is source ip when ace sends traffic to rserver? for f5, i guess it has snat setting, so f5 will use selfip when sending traffic to ace.
  • anand_4461's avatar
    anand_4461
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    Dec 04, 2011
    Yes , f5 has snat configured & selfip is the source ip that will hit on ace virtualip,but howcome the reverse traffic hits directly on f5 selfip from rserver...
  • Nathan_Houck_65's avatar
    Nathan_Houck_65
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    Dec 05, 2011
    Sounds like your return traffic is bypassing the ACE. Does the Rserver have the ACE as it Default Gateway?