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FishNiX_29746
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Mar 05, 2010

Can a vserver send traffic to all pool members?

    Can a virtual receive traffic on a single IP/port and then spam that traffic to all members of the pool assigned? I'm thinking specifically UDP traffic and unidirectional.   ...
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Nicolas_Menant
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Mar 16, 2010
Clone pool won't help.

 

 

It is designed to send identical copy of traffic to IDS or equivalent which are listening in promiscuous mode.

 

 

What the BIGIP will do is to:

 

1- LB the client connection, Select the destination server.

 

2- Send it the traffic.

 

3- it will send the EXACT same packet (same IP than elected server) to the IDS. To do so it will used the MAC address from the server specified in the Clone pool.

 

 

And it will send the copied packet to only one server in the clone pool.