change nat source address for a healthcheck

Hi Chris,

 

 

If you want to specify a source IP address for a monitor, you'd need to use an external monitor. Here's a basic example we came up with for ICMP:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/AdvDesignConfig/ICMPCustomSourceAddressMonitor.html

 

 

I'm not sure what client utility you could use that would allow specifying the source IP address though. curl doesn't seem to support it:

 

 

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html

 

5.12 Can I make libcurl fake or hide my real IP address?

 

 

netcat does seem to support it:

 

 

 

http://nc110.sourceforge.net/

 

Some of netcat's major features are:

 

 

Outbound or inbound connections, TCP or UDP, to or from any ports

 

Full DNS forward/reverse checking, with appropriate warnings

 

Ability to use any local source port

 

Ability to use any locally-configured network source address

 

 

 

Aaron