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Jan 22, 2014

F5 - Npath routing

Hi,   I'm trying to setup Npath routing by the book: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm_implementation/sol_npath.html However there are some issues and doubts a...
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Jan 23, 2014

Thanks for you response!

 

We want to use Npath for performance issues (trying to maximize throughput).

 

I tried "ifconfig lo -arp" (Linux) and I'm still able to ping the loopback interface from outside.

 

Related to outbound traffic, if you see the route table:

 

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

 

default 10.233.203.129 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

 

10.233.203.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

 

link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1002 0 0 eth0

 

Loopback interface is listening the request (because of the same IP address on LB) and I don't understand the flow of response... goes trough default gateway? because client (10.233.203.222 is on the same network than node)...

 

Thanks!