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Dazzla_20011
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Jan 11, 2011

Bluecoat Internet Monitor

Hi,     Just wondered if someone could help me. We've set up our F5 LTM pair to load balance outbound internet requests via two bluecoat proxies which are located at 2 diifferent data centres. W...
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Jan 14, 2011
Posted By Dazzla on 01/14/2011 07:43 AM

 

I think I may have managed to figure out why this isn't working. The bluecoat boxes are on a different network to the F5 LTM. In transparent mode do the Pools members need to sit inline with F5 devices?

 

From this link, it says it must be "adjacent"

 

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solu...r=12121378

 

 

 

From the wiki page, it says LTM sends to the pool member via L2

 

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/defau...nitor.html

 

 

 

"When an alternate Destination is specified and the Transparent option is selected, the monitor traffic will be sent to the alternate L3 destination via the pool member's L2 address . Useful for verifying gateways and proxies. (Pool member must be able to forward traffic as expected.)"

 

 

 

Not entirely sure what adjacent means in this case. Not sure whether it has to be on the same network so the L3 info remains intact or what. Might be worth asking F5 support unless someone else chimes in.