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Steve_Kearns_85
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Nov 02, 2010

Can the standby LTM access virtual servers?

I have a pair of LTM's in my data center (running BigIP 9.3.0), running as an active/standby pair. My situation is this: I have a virtual server/pool setup for outbound SMTP (for redundancy: I have m...
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Hamish
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Nov 03, 2010
It'll depend on what the routing table says I think whether you connect to the local LTM or connect out the management port... If you do connect to the local LTM, and SNAT is enabled it might (Will probably) work. But then I only use SNAT as a last resort...

 

 

Without SNAT, the src IP is probably going to be something quite strange (Sorry, at home ATM so can't check what the routing table looks like)... 127.0.0.1 (Loopback) perhaps

 

 

 

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