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owenallenaz_297
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Nov 01, 2016

Creating a high availability public IP without access to HTTP headers

What we are looking to is have a public IP which forwards traffic to internal servers, not via HTTP, but without altering the original IP of the request.   The reason we need such a setup is that...
application delivery
BIG-IP
devops
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Greg_Labelle
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Nov 02, 2016

You have two options with respect to maintaining the source IP Address of the request. In either case what you are trying to achieve is access for the clients to the backend pool, with SNAT disabled.

 

The first option is layer 3 forwarding, aka routing, via the F5. Below is a link to the overview for this method; Layer 3 Forwarding overview

 

The second option is a VLAN group. Link below can provide guidance for this method;

 

F5 VLAN Group overview