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Micha__Iwaszko_
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Jan 27, 2009

DMZ design/configuration problem

Hello. I have a design/configuration problem with mail servers in a DMZ, using LTMs for load balancing SMTP/HTTP connections. For example:     1. There's a network, 192.168.0.0/24 that's te...
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Micha__Iwaszko_
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Jan 27, 2009
It's not exactly what I would like to achieve, because of the firewall that terminates this network. Therefore the return packet of the SMTP connection cannot bypass the LTM, but at the same time, the packet originating from the SMTP servers has to omit the LTM SNAT/LB processes and simply be routed on a L3 basis to the LTMs default gateway. Is that possible?

 

 

PS. The only problem here is to make the LTM to accept and route the HTTP packet from the SMTP server without any VSes etc.