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Mike_Gee_257375
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May 23, 2017

Basic IP COnfiguration

F5 doesn’t seem to like to answer these questions over the phone. And during training we never touched on any scenario that didn’t involve the F5 being the gateway.   We want or F5 only to provid...
application delivery
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Anesh's avatar
Anesh
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May 23, 2017

Regarding your question "Is it possible or is it a terrible practice for the backend servers, self IPs and VIP IP to all be in the same subnet? For example; App Server A 10.1.1.1 App Server B 10.1.1.2 F5 Self IP 10.1.1.10 VIP 10.1.1.15"

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You will have to use SNAT

Regarding Question "If this is possible, since all traffic is on the same subnet could we use a single NIC on the F5 for both incoming and outgoing traffic?"

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You can use tagged interface

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