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Vijay_01
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Jul 27, 2019

Clone Pool vs Interface Mirroring

  Hi,   I was reading through Clone Pool and Interface Mirroring to send the copy of the traffic to some sniffer device such as IDS. I came across something called "Asymmetric Routing". As per...
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boneyard
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Jul 28, 2019

i would assume the issue lies that with asymmetric routing (which i wouldn't call a feature, but often not an optimally designed network) traffic returns via different interface or not even via the BIG-IP.

 

the clone people feature probably wants to see the full session via the same interfaces / virtual server.