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Eric_Van
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Jun 25, 2019

Change HTTP Request to Proxy Request

I have a few web proxy servers offsite that user traffic flows outbound through. Onsite, I have these proxy servers fronted by an LTM v14 cluster. So, the user's browser points its proxy settings t...
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David_M
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Sep 04, 2019

If you assign a VIP as a default gateway then all your traffic goes to that, which means your VIP should be a router as well.

 

And that's now the VIP works, its just a listener, it cannot do any routing for you.

 

The default gateway for a client is always mostly a router or a routing capable device.