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Feb 17, 2012

CIFS/SMB

Hi Guys,     I have set up a FastL4 VIP to manage SMB traffic on port 445.   the problem is i am seeing big performance degradation in comparison to browsing directly to the SMB share (bypassi...
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Feb 21, 2012
[user@bigip:Active] ~ tmsh list ltm virtual blob-prod.domain.com-445

 

ltm virtual blob-prod.domain.com-445 {

 

destination 10.100.64.101:microsoft-ds

 

ip-protocol tcp

 

mask 255.255.255.255

 

partition Windows

 

persist {

 

blob-persist {

 

default yes

 

}

 

}

 

pool blob-prod.domain.com-445

 

profiles {

 

blob-fastL4 { }

 

}

 

snat automap

 

}