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Greg_Burch
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Jul 19, 2012

Defining "loopback" address on F5

I have an LTM pair that is only physically connected to an internal VLAN. Externally-accessible virtual servers have their own IP space that is static-routed to the non-internet-routable physical addr...
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Techgeeeg
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Jul 20, 2012
Hi Greg,

 

When in the Fail-over pair the only accessible IP will be the floating IP which will point to the active unit the standby unit wont be accessible. I am sure you must have configured the NAT to the floating IP of the LTM pair. Did it work or no? if it didn't then the following may stand.

 

 

I am not exactly sure but the commands bigip_add will not work from behind the NAT you have to get the LTM units the public IP address. I prefer you open a case with F5 and do share how you got this resolved.

 

 

Regards,