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Cirrus

Oct 24, 2013

Basic network configuration with BIGIP VE

Hello all, one thing is to physically plug wires into the network plugs, however having possibility to run BIGIP as a Virtual Edition is great. I'm trying to run it in the AWS VPC network and havin...

Egor_33493
Nov 06, 2013
Hi. Good to hear that you resolved your problems.

Yes, you can't just configure an BIG-IP with IP address from a valid amazon subnet and start using it. Any IP address you use should be configured on amazon side via Manage Private IP Addresses. What about BIG-IP floating self-ips or failover? It works for me and afaik it's officially supported.

src/dest check is a good point. Personally I prefer to use source address translation set to Auto Map for a virtual server if possible.