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davidy2001's avatar
davidy2001
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Nov 07, 2022

F5 and its gateway

Hi I made basic F5 configuration based on F5 protocol. But I notice there is not gateway config towards outside connection. For example, the virtual server in F5 send message out via  its neighbor de...
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davidy2001's avatar
davidy2001
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Nov 08, 2022

Thanks very much. I found default gateway ip address in my F5. Please see below. The question is I did not add the Gateway Address on this page, can you tell which step I did to have the ip address 10.0.30.254 over there? 

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PSFletchTheTek
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Nov 08, 2022

So when you config your device for the first time using the "config" command on the console.

You can or do put a default route in.

I'm just not sure that feeds through into tmm so you see that.

Having said that I'm on u14 so that might be different in different versions.

  • Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh's avatar
    Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh
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    Nov 08, 2022

    Hi PSFletchTheTek , 
            The Cli or Consol first time when issuing ( config ) command , its to configure management interface. 
    By using " Config " Command on bash , you give an ip address for management interface , and the default route is configured with an ip from the management subnet and we can say that is the default gateway for management traffic not real or data traffic. 

    Also , Management traffic is an adminstrative traffic which handled or processed by Control plan , not like real traffic or data traffic which processed by tmm or data plan. 

    Regards